Gillray (James)

considered the most famous of all British caricatures, Pitt and Napoleon, both in full uniform, seated either side of the globe, a large plum pudding, Pitt using a knife to carve a large slice through the Atlantic, to include the West Indies, while Napoleon uses a large sword to carve Europe away, leaving only the British Isles, Scandinavia and Russia,

hand-coloured etching on thick wove paper, 260 x 360mm., the additional number 295 below the title in the upper right corner, [BM Satires 10371], first issued by, and still bearing the imprint of, H. Humphrey, 1805, this copy from ‘The Works of James Gillray’,