Keywords: Maniac-Ravings-Gillray.jpeg Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit / Js Gillray inv fect SUMMARY Cartoon showing Napoleon in a fury over relations between France and England MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London pubd by Js Gillray 1803 According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 227 A parody on Lord Whitworth's dispatch of the 14th of March 1803 describing the violent scene which had occurred the day before at the Tuilleries 'The exasperation and fury of Buonaparte ' says the Annual Register for the year just mentioned 'broke out into ungovernable rage at his own Court on his public day and in the presence ofthe diplomatic body of Europe there assembled Thus violating every principle of hospitality ”of decorum ”of politeness ”and the privileges of Ambassadors ”ever before held sacred On the appearance of Lord Whitworth in the circle he approached him with equal agitation and ferocity proceeded to descant in the bitterest terms on the conduct of the English Government ”summoned the Ministers of some of the Foreign Courts to be witnesses to this vituperative harangue ”and concluded by expressions of the most angry and menacing hostility The English Ambassador did not think it advisable to make any answer to this brutal and ungentlemanly attack and it terminated by the First Consul retiring to his apartments repeating his last phrases till he had shut himself in; leaving nearly two hundred spectators of this wanton display of arrogant impropriety in amazement and consternation ' Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8795 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08795u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white point cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1803 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g08795 PD-old-100 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom Caricatures of Napoleon I of France Mania Rage in art People with globes in art |