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.
- James Gillray
- 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
- Quackery
- Military uniforms
- Alligators
- Mummies
- Sick
- Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
- Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
- Napoleon
- Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Jean Baptiste Kléber
- Charles XIV John of Sweden
- Schérer, Barthélemy, active 1799.
- Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald
- Jean Étienne Championnet
- Joubert, Barthélemy-Catharine, 1769-1799.
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