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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
A French elephant. PL: XVIII
hand colored etching
image: 321 x 231 mm; sheet: 366 x 259 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1990
Published:
London : Publd by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly, 1818 November.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Etcher from the British Museum collection online.
Lettered with title and publication line "Publd by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly."
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Louis XVIII caricatured as an elephant, seen from behind. His broad bowed shoulders are the animal's hind-quarters, with an arc of bald head between side-pieces of powdered hair which serve as elephant's ears. A very narrow pointed coat-tail hangs between the pillarlike legs of the gouty king. Across the back is a ribbon from which dangles a fleur-de-lis.
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