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John Bull and Bonaparte!! To the Tune of the Blue Bell of Scotland.

John Bull and Bonaparte!! To the Tune of the Blue Bell of Scotland.When and O when does this little Boney come? / Perhaps he'll come in August! - perhaps he'll stay at home; / But it's O in my heart, how I'll hide him should he come...

Woodward del. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Foxing.
John Bull, a fat citizen in old-fashioned dress, facing down Napoleon Bonaparte, wearing an outsize bicorn and carrying a huge sabre, across the Channel. Britain ended the Peace of Amiens when it declared war on France in May 1803.
BM Satires 10064.
[Ref: 54575]  £290.00


 

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