Boney the Second or the little babboon created to devour French monkies
Boney the Second or the little babboon created to devour French monkies
Item Information
Title:
Boney the Second or the little babboon created to devour French monkies
Description:
"Boneyparte" in his general's uniform, is seated before the fire, making caudle of French blood for the infant prince ; a row of sovereign-crowns, wrested from the wearers, are ranged on the mantelpiece. Napoleon's heir, the miniature of his sire, with the addition of a monkey's tail, is tearing and clawing at his parent, and is held on a cushion placed outside the Imperial cradle, which is inscribed Devil's Darling.
Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 203-4
On item: 66
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 4," the fourth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
