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| Title | General Frost Shaveing Little Boney |
| Creator | [Elmes, William (worked 1811-1820)] |
| Publisher | Tegg, Thomas, (1776-1845) |
| Place of Publication | England -- London -- Cheapside |
| Date | 1812 |
| Caption Text | Caption on Image
GENERAL FROST Shaveing Little BONEY
Dec'r 1, 1812 Publ'd by Tho's Tegg No 111 Cheapside London
Price one shilling coloured
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[Number on top of drawing] 181
Dialogue and Signage:
[Napoleon] Pray Brother General—have Mercy, don't overwhelm me with your hoary element, you have to can't read me, that my very teeth chatter..Oh dear—I am quite chop fallen.
[General Frost] Invade my Country indeed – I'll Shave__Freeze__and Bury you in Snow, You little Monkey.
[Razor] Prussian Steel
[Frost's Helmet] Mountain of Ice
[Star] Polar Star
[Breath from Frost's Nose] North East – Snow and Sleet, North
[Cities] Moscow, Riga, Petersbourg
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| Historical Notes | Having waited until mid-October to depart for Moscow, the exhausted French army soon found itself in the midst of winter—in fact, in the midst of an unusually early and especially cold winter. Temperatures soon dropped well below freezing, Cossacks attacked stragglers and isolated units, food was almost non-existent, and the march was five hundred miles. Ten thousand men survived. The campaign ensured Napoleon's downfall and Russia's status as a leading power in post-Napoleonic Europe. The remnants of the Grand Army crossed the Berezina on November 26-29, and reached Prussian territory by crossing the Niemen on December 13-14.
Reference Source: George #11917 |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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| Geographic Coverage | France
Russia |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP029 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | E23 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm. on sheet 36 x 26 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. |
