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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:Boney the Second, or, The little babboon created to devour French monkies [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. April 9t[h], 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [9 April 1811]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Leaf 14 in volume 2.
    
  • Provenance:Myers; May 1942.
    Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
    
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• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
  Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner.
  Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
  
• Summary:"The little King of Rome sits in his cradle, between the proudly protecting arms of Marie Louise, who kneels behind him. The infant has an adult head resembling that of his father, and a tail; he wears a replica of Napoleon's cocked hat. He holds out his arms to Napoleon, who sits by the fire, holding out a napkin to dry. The Emperor looks fondly at the child, saying, "Rejoice O ye Frenchmen, the Fruits of my Labour has produced a little Image of myself, I shall for the love I owe to your Country instill in my Noble Ofspring the same principles of Lying thieving treachery Letchery Murder and all other foul deeds for which I am now Worshipped and Adored". Behind and between the Emperor and Empress, a bishop (? Cardinal Fesch) kneels over the infant, his hands folded as if in prayer; he repeats the words of Henry VI to Gloucester before his murder by the latter: "The Owl shriek'd at thy Birth, an evil Sight. The Night Crow cry'd foreboding luckless Time. Dogs howl'd and hideous Tempests shook down Trees. The Raven rook'd her on the Chimney Top And chattering Pies in Dismal Discord sung." ['3 Henry VI', v. 6.] On the fire (left) boils a saucepan inscribed 'French Blood'; little demons ascend in the steam rising from it. The mantelshelf is supported by carved demoniac creatures, one having a satyr's head, the other that of a Fury with snaky locks. A similar creature supports the bars of the grate. On the mantelshelf are imperial crowns, the iron crown of Italy (as in British Museum Satires No. 10432), and a papal tiara. The cradle has a crown at the head, and at the foot a grotesque mask inscribed 'Devils Darlind' [sic]. Behind (right), a lady, evidently Josephine, sits up in bed, holding a wine-glass; she looks towards the child quoting Ophelia's words: "Ah Woe is me, seeing what I have seen and seeing what I see". Near her stands an ugly old nurse, holding a syringe; an infant's chair is beside her; it is ornamented with a crown and inscribed 'Prince Skinny Boneys Caching Chair'. On the ground (left) is a sauce-boat inscribed 'Bitter Cup'."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• In_: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror. V. 2.
  
• Variant and related titles:Little babboon created to devour French monkies
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 11719
  Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 203-4
  
• Subjects:Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Fesch, Joseph, 1763-1839--Caricatures and cartoons.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1811.
  Etchings--England--London--1811.
  
• Also listed under:Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.