Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764-1811, British, and George Cruikshank, 1792-1878,
British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher
Title:
Boney beating Mack--and Nelson giving him a Whack!! or the British Tars giving Boney his Hearts desire. Ships, Colonies & Commerce
Date:
1805
Materials:
Etching with hand coloring
Current Location:
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Address:
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Object ID:
1989.21.155
Provenance:
Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection.
Object Type:
Print
Heading:
Notes
Notes:
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 16; Douglas 649; Krumbhaar 86; British Museum 10439
Notes:
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "Pubd by S.W. Fores N. 50 Piccadilly London Novr 19 1805" at l.r.
Notes:
Referring to John Ashton's "English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I," E.B. Krumbhaar, Isaac Cruikshank's early cataloger, suggests Isaac Cruikshank likely etched this plate, assisted by his thirteen-year-old son, George.
Notes:
The character Little Boney, a miniaturized Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), first appears in James Gillray's 1803 print, "John Bull offering little Boney Fair Play," published by Hannah Humphrey. [Rand, Snuffing Out Boney]
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft2n39n7s 7

Boney beating Mack--and Nelson giving him a Whack!! or the British Tars giving Boney…