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Napoleonic satire.- Cruikshank (Isaac, 1764-1811) Harlequin's last skip, Napoleon, dressed as Harlequin, but with enormous cocked hat and Hessian boots, stands in terrified submission before a massive John Bull, etching with hand-colouring on laid paper with watermark date of '180[?]2', sheet 242 x 350 mm. (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in), laid down at edges onto album leaf, handling creases, minor surface dirt, unframed [BM Satires 10270], 1804; together with John Bull out of all Patience and Peace or War ? or John Bull turned Shuttle-cock! both published by William Holland [BM undescribed], an uncoloured but later impression of James Gillray's Buonaparte, 48 Hours after Landing [BM 10041], probably published by Thomas McLean circa 1830, and a copy after Gillray's French invasion - or - Buonaparte landing in Great Britain [cf. BM 10008], published as Plate No. X.XI in London und Paris, etchings, all but one coloured, various sizes, all laid down onto album leaves at edges, unframed, 1803 and slightly later (5)