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CARICATURE AND SATIRE
ON
NAPOLEON I.
VOL. I.
WORKS BY JOHN ASHTON.
A HISTORY OF THE CHAP-BOOKS OF THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURY. With nearly 400 Illustrations,engraved in facsimile of the originals. Crown8vo. cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE REIGN OF QUEENANNE. From Original Sources. With nearly 100 Illustrations.Crown 8vo. cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
HUMOUR, WIT, AND SATIRE OF THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY. With nearly 100 Illustrations.Crown 8vo. cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
London: CHATTO & WINDUS, Piccadilly.
THE EXILE.
A SKETCH FROM LIFE AT LONGWOOD. APRIL 1820.
ENGLISH
CARICATURE AND SATIRE
ON
NAPOLEON I.
BY
JOHN ASHTON
AUTHOR OF ‘SOCIAL LIFE IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE’ ETC.
WITH 115 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. I.
London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1884
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This book is not intended to be a History of Napoleonthe First, but simply to reproduce the bulk of the Caricaturesand Satires published in England on our greatenemy, with as much of history as may help to elucidatethem.
The majority of the caricatures are humorous; othersare silly, or spiteful—as will occasionally happen nowadays;and some are too coarse for reproduction—so that a carefulselection has had to be made. Gillray and Rowlandsongenerally signed their names to the work of their hands;but, wherever a caricature occurs unsigned by the artist,I have attributed it, on the authority of the late EdwardHawkins, Esq., some time Keeper of the Prints at theBritish Museum, to whatever artist he has assigned it. Ihave personally inspected every engraving herein described,and the description is entirely my own.
Should there, by chance, be an occasional discrepancyas to a date, it has been occasioned by the inconceivablecontradictions which occur in different histories and newspapers.To cite an instance: in three different books aregiven three different dates of Napoleon leaving Elba, andviit was only by the knowledge that it occurred on a Sunday,and by consulting an almanac for the year 1815, that I wasable absolutely to determine it.