Beschreibung:

Napoleonic satire.- Ward (Harry, active 1805-1810) John Bull's explosive bum (bomb) or a ducking for the French fleet in Basque roads, John Bull holds up his coat-tails and directs a blast from his posterior at French ships below, etching with original hand-colouring on laid paper with watermark date of '1809', sheet 335 x 235 mm. (13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in), trimmed within platemark to borderline, minor handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, [BM Satires 11326], Walker, 1809; together with Thomas Rowlandson's The mothers hope after Woodward [BM 11137], an uncoloured impression of Knight's Bone and Flesh or John Bull in Moderate Condition [not in BM Satires], Isaac Cruikshank's The Empress's wish or Boney puzzled!! [Not in BM], and John Nixon's Madame Bonaparte's Intercession or Second Thoughts are Best!!! [Not in BM], etchings with hand-colouring, various sizes, unframed, [c. 1803-1810] (5).