Cruikshank (Isaac)
The Corsican Macheath,
Ackermann, 1803.
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after George Moutard Woodward, one of many satires in patriotic response to the perceived threat of invasion in 1803, depicting Napoleon with arms outstretched and feet well apart, standing on a clifftop overlooking fortified and heavily armed promontories and islands, with numerous battling ships at sea in between, singing ‘Which way shall I turn me/ How can I deside/ The Prospects before me/ I long for to Stride/ But ’tis this way – or that way/ Or which way I will/ John Bull at his Post/ Is prepared with a pill.’
original hand-coloured etching, 240 x 335 mm. (9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in), [BM Satires 10102],
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