Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- 20 June 1799
- Reference:
- 12187i
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Publication/Creation
[London] (St. James Street) : H. Humphrey, 20 June 1799.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 26 x 36.2 cm
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Lettering
French generals retiring, on account of their health; - with Lepaux presiding in the directorial dispensary.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, London 1942, no. 9403
Reference
Wellcome Collection 12187i
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Subjects
- Wounds and injuries
- Quacks and quackery
- Military uniforms
- Alligators
- Mummies
- Sick
- La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824.
- Lake, Gerard Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1771-1847.
- Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794.
- Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste, 1762-1833.
- Kléber, Jean-Baptiste, 1753-1800.
- Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844.
- Schérer, Barthélemy, active 1799.
- Macdonald, Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre, duc de Tarente, 1765-1840.
- Championnet, Jean-Etienne, 1762-1800.
- Joubert, Barthélemy-Catharine, 1769-1799.
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