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• Author/Creator:Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
  
• Title:A grand manoeuvre!, or, The rogues march to the island of Elba [graphic] / G. Cruikshank fect.
  
• Publication:[London] : Pubd. April 13th, 1814, by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [13 April 1814]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 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.5
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Watermark: 1817.
    Leaf 25 in volume 5.
    
  • 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.
  Plate numbered "325" in upper right corner.
  Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
  
• Summary:"In a fantastic procession Napoleon, much burlesqued and very thin, is dragged and pushed to the sea-shore, where (right) a boat manned by the Devil waits to take him to Elba. Round his neck is a rope dragged by two dwarfish and ragged Frenchmen (right): one is a ferocious little Jacobin, wearing a bonnet rouge, shouting "à bas le Tyran"; the other is a royalist, waving a hat in which is an olive-branch and ribbons inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', and shouting "Vive Louis XVIII." Napoleon weeps; he is assailed by a shower of missiles including cats and rats; a little demon capers on his head playing a fiddle. His hands are tied behind him and his coat is worn back to front; his feet project through his ragged boots, his great spurs are attached to the front of his leg above the instep. In his coat-pocket is a tiny King of Rome waving a rattle topped by a crown and shouting: "By gar Papa I have made von grand manœuvre in your Pocket!!" The chief motive force is the large 'Allied Broom' [according to Broadley, perhaps describing another state, the inscription is not 'Allied Broom' but 'Abdication'], with which Talleyrand, wearing a long gown and a high surgical shoe on his left foot, pushes Napoleon forward, pointing derisively and grinning delightedly; he says: "There he goes!!!" Behind Talleyrand are a small but elderly drummer and a ragged soldier playing a fife. The former wears in his cap a big white favour, and an inscription: 'Vive Louis XVIII'; the latter wears a laurel branch and a favour inscribed 'Vive Louis' in his bonnet rouge; from his mouth float the words: "He was whip'd & he w drum'd, He w [sic] drum'd out of the Regt, If ever he is a Soldier again, The Devil may be his Sergeant." Next, and on the extreme left, are two women flinging missiles at Napoleon, and shouting "a bas le Tyran--Down with the Tyrant--Vive Louis." On the extreme right is a shouting man holding up a tricolour flag, inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', its staff topped by a fleur-de-lis. On the ground (left) are Napoleon's epaulets with the scissors by which they have been cut from his coat, his sash and a small crown, perhaps that of the King of Rome. With these is a document: 'Done at Fontainebleau', across which lies a broken sword. On the horizon (right) is a rocky island from which rise large flames; these surround a tall gibbet with one dangling corpse and one empty noose; a ladder leans against it."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• In_: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror. V. 5.
  
• Variant and related titles:Rogues march to the island of Elba
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 12221
  
• Subjects:Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838--Caricatures and cartoons.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1814.
  Etchings--England--London--1814.
  Watermarks (Paper)--1817.
  
• Also listed under:Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.