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| Keywords: Destruction of the French gun-boats.jpg TITLE Destruction of the French gun-boats-or-Little Boney his friend Talley in high glee SUMMARY Cartoon showing Napoleon sitting on the shoulder of Talleyrand gleefully peering through a large rolled document Talleyrand's plan for invading Great Britain at the channel where the French flotilla is being destroyed by shells from British ships Talleyrand stands behind the gun embrasures of a fortress on a cliff at whose base the gunboats are foundering On the horizon is the English coast with Dover Castle on a cliff MEDIUM 1 print engraving color CREATED/PUBLISHED London pubd by H Humphrey 1803 CREATOR Gillray James 1756-1815 engraver http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3c11317 Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/128140 html PD-old James Gillray Dover Castle in the distance Caricatures of Napoleon I of France Dover Castle in art \ People sitting on other people's shoulders | ||||
