GILLRAY, JamesBuonaparte, 48 Hours after Landing! – Vide. John Bulls Home-stroke, Armed en Masse. London, Hannah Humphrey, 26 July 1803.

Plate: 356 x 255mm; Sheet: 395 x 298mm. Hand-coloured etching; light spotting

John Bull holding the head of Napoleon on a pitchfork. A crowd in the background holding a Union flag and smiling up at the emperors bleeding head; some wave their hats. – Rare.

BM Satires 10041; Broadley A 153; cf. Arenenberg 16 (uncoloured re-issue by M’Lean)

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