ROBERTS, Piercy (publisher) – Iohn Bull peeping into Brest. London, Roberts, n.d. (c. June 1803)

Plate: 245 x 344mm; Sheet: 256 x 355mm; Hand-coloured etching; with small closed marginal tears; slightly soiled in places

This caricature thematises the British Blockade of Brest in 1803. A gigantic John Bull peers at three French ships off the French coast. Napoleon stands on the deck of one of them.

BM Satires 10024; Broadley A 496

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