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| Title | Destruction of the French Gun-Boats |
| Subtitle | or Little Boney & his Friend Talley in high Glee |
| Creator | [Gillray, James 1757-1815] |
| Publisher | [Humphrey, Hannah 1774-1817] |
| Place of Publication | [England -- London] |
| Date | [1803] |
| Caption Text | Caption on Image:
Destruction of the French Gun Boats or Little Boney & his Friend Talley in high Glee
Dialogue and Signage:
[Napoleon] O my dear Talley, what a glorious sight! We've worked up Johnny Bull into a fine passion—my good Fortune never leaves me! __ I shall now get rid of a hundred Thousand French CutThroats whom I was so afraid of! – O my dear Talley, this beats the Egyptian Poisoning hollow! Bravo Johnny! – pepper ‘em, Johnny!
[Scroll in Napoleon's hand] TALLEYRAND'S plan for INVADING Great Britain
[Number at top of image] No. XVII
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| Historical Notes | 1803 was a year of alarm and terror for England. It was widely believed that Napoleon planned to invade England, and didn't care how many men he lost. He was reputed to have said: "I can afford 10,000 men a day." The drawing shows this callous disregard for his troops at the same time it belittles Napoleon's capacity to successfully invade England. Napoleon sits on the shoulders of Talleyrand (an influential French diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs), peering through a rolled-up document. The document is Talleyrand's plan for the invasion, clearly a disaster from its inception since the French gunboats are outclassed by the British fleet. (Talleyrand was never a general.)
Reference Source: George #10125.
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP014 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | E17 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; on sheet 18 x 22 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
