Boney hatching a bulletin or snug winter quarters!!! – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Boney hatching a bulletin or snug winter quarters!!!. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boney hatching a bulletin or snug winter quarters!!!
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Titled "Boney hatching a bulletin," this 1812 etching by George Cruikshank takes aim at Napoleon Bonaparte, whom British satirists often called "Boney." The December date places it just as the French army's retreat from Moscow had become a disaster in the Russian winter, and Napoleon had left his troops to return to Paris. The "bulletin" in the title refers to the official reports he issued to the French public, which tried to present the defeat as a sensible move. Cruikshank, one of Britain's most prolific caricaturists, used the sarcastic phrase "snug winter quarters" to mock that spin.
| Created / published | 1812 Dec. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | Etching by George Cruikshank. cf: P&P - NE55.L7A3 vol. IX, no. 11920. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172933 |
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