Bone and flesh, or, Iohn Bull in moderate condition / Knight invt.

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Charles Knight
1743-1827?
Bone and flesh, or, Iohn Bull in moderate condition / Knight invt.
hand colored etching
image: 238 x 342 mm; plate mark: 252 x 354 mm; sheet: 268 x 375 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1906
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[London] : Pubd April 15 1806 by Walker N° 7 Cornhill London, [1806]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Lettered: "Knight invt / Pubd April 15 1806 by Walker N° 7 Cornhill London."

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Napoleon visits Lambert. Lambert sits squarely in his bergére (r.), Napoleon (l.) stands in profile to the right., holding a vast plumed bicorne, his left hand on the hilt of a sabre whose sheath rests on the ground; he is thinner than in the more recent portraits. He says: "I contemplate this Wonder of the World & regret that all my Conquered Domains cannot Match this Man, Pray Sir are not you a descendant from the great Joss of China." Lambert answers: "No Sir, I am a true born Englishman from the County of Leicester, a quiet Mind and good Constitution nourished by the free Air of Great Britain makes every Englishman thrive." Beside him lies a bill: "Exhibition - Mr Danl Lambert one of the great wonders of the World at the Age of 36 Weigh'd 50 Stone 14 pounds to the Stone is 5 ft 11. high & 3 1/2 yds round in perfct Health and very Active - N° 53 Piccadilly - ."

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