ROBERTS, Piercy – An attempt to undermine John Bull, or working through the globe. London, Roberts, n.d. (1803)

Plate: 354 x 249mm; Sheet: 358 x 259mm; Hand-coloured etching; slightly stained, lower left corner clipped without loss

Napoleon standing on the globe, swinging a pickaxe with which he enlarges a rock cavity. Smiling John Bull, holding a sabre, lies on Great Britain and warns the French emperor.

BM Satires 9982 (uncoloured); Broadley A 33

EUR 650,-