War with France and Napoleon

S & J Abbott Ceramics Plus

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James Gillray, The Valley of the Shadow of Death. Napoleon as seen by the English, uncloured print. 27cm x 38cm, pub H Humphrey 17 Sept 1808 Napoleon, advancing down a gently sloping causeway of rock which traverses water and flames, is halted by 'Leo Britannicus' who bounds savagely towards him. He drops a short chain attached to the nose of the 'Russian Bear', a huge white creature at his heels. He is beset on all sides by monsters, who emerge from a background of flame, smoke, and cloud, or from the water. Stock No SAP0637 Price 1,000

John Bull Peeping into Brest

by George Moutard Woodward

(1760 - 1809) 'John Bull Peeping

into Brest', published June 1803

by Piercy Roberts, London, hand

coloured etching, 10" x 15".

Hand-coloured etching

Stock No SAP0873 Price £600

George Cruickshank: The Battle of

Vittoria,

Number 201, pub 7 July 1813 by T Tegg,

111 Cheapside, 34cm wide x 23.5cm high

The victory of General Sir Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington, at Vittoria on 21 June 1813 brought about the final downfall of French rule in Spain. Stock No SAP0867 Price £650

George Cruickshank: The Afterpiece of

The Tragedy of Waterloo - or - Madame

Francoise & her Managers!!!

Hand coloured etching on wove paper,

published by William Hone, 55 Fleet Street,

November 9, 1815, plate 21. 35 cm wide x

24.7 cm high.

France, or 'Mme Françoise', is a woman, larger in scale than the other figures, whom the Allies pinion, plunder, and maltreat. She is on the ground on her back, supported on her arms, with a heavy fetter attached to her left wrist and right leg. Stock No SAP0866 Price £650

'Little Boney sneaking into Paris' Napoleon’s return to Paris, an English view. Engraved by William Eames, published by T Tegg, London 1813. 20 x 31 cm. A rare print, small tear to bottom edge Stock No SAP0941 Price £500

General Frost shaving little Boney, coloured engraving by William Elmes size 34cm x 24cm. Published by Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, London in 1812 showing how the weather aided the defeat of Napoleon in Russia. Stock No SAP0865 Price £750

'The National Assembly Petrified' and 'The National Assembly Revived', James Gillray, published by Fores London 1791, hand coloured etching, 17 x 13 ins. On laid paper, watermark J Whatman. Stock No SAP0737 Price £450

'Ci devant Occupations' or 'Madam Talien and the Empress Josephine', A rare print by James Gillray, pub Feb 20th 1805 engraving with later hand colouring, sheet size 34 x 48cm within a mount. According to slanderous gossip, the young general Napoleon, who peeks through the curtains at the right, first laid eyes on his future wife as she danced naked for the comte de Barras. The latter was a leading politician who had made Josephine his mistress but then had grown tired of her. According to the text below the image, Barras offered Napoleon the leadership of an Egyptian campaign if he would take the lady as well. The artist's long-standing anti- French bias was sparked, in this instance, by the recent coronation of the imperial couple in a ceremony whose excesses were widely mocked in Britain. Stock No SAP0823 Price £1,300

The Dunghill cock and game pullet or Boney beat out of the Pitt. An unusual print with layers of meanings, hand-coloured, drawn by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) showing Marie Louise, Empress of France instructing Napoleon to fight on despite the hopeless situation. She swings on a ‘boat swing’ as she teases Napoleon who, stooped in resignation, walks away from her Underneath the swing is a dog with a collar marked 'A sneaking Cur'. On its body is marked 'Brought back from Egypt.' An Aide- de-Camp watches with amusement in the background and a group of 'stolen images' stand in the left background. Inscribed in the plate: Tegg's Caricatures No 9 / Price One shilling Coloured / Pubd April 27th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside Stock No SAP0960 Price £550

Fighting for the Dunghill or Jack Tar settling Buonaparte,

After Gillray, published John Miller, London & W Blackwood Edinburgh, 1824- 27. Size 17 x 23.5cm image Stock No SAP0824 Price £250

‘ At Home…A Broad…At Home again,’ hand coloured print by Paul Pry (William Heath) 1803, pub. J McLean 26 Haymarket, 37cm wide x 26cm high. Stock No SAP0868 Price £350

Apotheosis of the Corsican Phoenix, A rare print, uncoloured print by James Gillray, pub H Humphrey 2 August 1808, 27 x 38 cm Stock No SAP0948 Price £1,000

Spanish Patriots attacking the French Banditti Gillray created this dynamic satire to celebrate a Spanish-British victory over an overwhelmingly superior enemy at the Battle of Bailén in southern Spain, during the Peninsular War (1807–14). His dynamic conception encapsulates a rare defeat for French occupying forces on July 16–19, 1808. Uncoloured print, 17 x 38 cm, pub H Humphry 15 August 1808 Stock No SAP0947 Price £1,000

The Right Honorable Rear Admiral, Lord Nelson, K.B. mezzotint, hand coloured 34.5 x 25cm derived from the portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott. Nelson is seen standing on deck, stepping on a flag, looking towards the viewer, right sleeve pinned to his breast, left hand holding a sword, wearing naval uniform, sash, star and epaulettes; cannon and balls to right, a ship exploding in the background to right and a cliff fort to left. Published 20th. October 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.' Stock No SAP0893 Price £400

John Bull clipping the Corsican's Wings!! A satire on the fear of a French Invasion, etching, hand colourd, pub September 1803 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, 24cm wide x 35cm high Stock No SAP0872 Price £750

John Bull teased by an Ear-Wig!!! A very English View of Napoleon attributed to West. We see John Bull teased by an Ear-Wig being a very small Napoleon. Published by Wm Holland , 11 Cockspur Street, 1813, etching with contemporary hand colouring, 24.5cm wide x 35cm high Stock No SAP0871 Price £650

John Bull guarding the Toy Shop, - or Boney Crying for some more play things, JB engraver, pub Fores Oct 20th 1803, 24.5 x 33.5 cm. This copy faded but original! Napoleon to right, wears his huge bicorne and sabre; he says: "Pray Mr Bull let me have some of the Toys if tis only that little one in the corner." John answers: "I tell you - you shant touch one of them - so blubber away and be d-d". Only a part of the window of a corner-shop is visible, fronted with iron railings. The panes are filled, not with prints, but with models of London buildings: 'India House', 'St James's', 'Bank', at which Napoleon points, 'Costom House', 'The Treasury', 'Tower'. Hand-coloured etching Stock No SAP0848 Price £250

Northern Bears taught to Dance ‘Northern Bears taught to Dance,’ from the series ‘Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening’ published 14 February 1801. It shows Admiral Lord Nelson , Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and Jack Tar whipping bears representing Russia, Denmark and Sweden, sixe 25 x 33 cm. The print is close cut with small loss to the right side Inscription: 'Pubd Feby 14 1801 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening' Stock No SAP0977 Price £500

He would be a Soldier, or the History of John Bull's warlike Expedition, pub J W Fores 1st July 1793, No 3 Piccadilly, 39.5cm wide x 29 cm high Stock No SAP0869 Price £350

Napoleon in Exile, hand coloured lithograph, printed by W & J O Clerk, 202 High Holborn, sold by Orlando Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street, London, undated but 1820s seems likley. Size 26 x 21 cm., in a period frame. Stock No SAP0978 Price £290

‘Bonaparte Premier Consul de la Republique Francais' A rare print from France c.1802. From a painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) and engraved by Levachez. It shows Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of France and a review of the troops below Stock No SAP0797 Price £550