Sujet
'The first Kiss this Ten Years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François', 1803, (1921). Creator: Unknown.
Légende
'The first Kiss this Ten Years! - or - the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François', 1803, (1921). Citizen François (representing France): 'Madame, permittez me, to pay my profound esteem to your engaging person! & to seal on your divine Lips my everlasting attachment!!!'. Britannia replies: 'Monsieur, you are truly a well-bred Gentleman! - & tho' you make me blush, yet, you Kiss so delicately, that I cannot refuse you; tho' I was sure you would Deceive me again!!!' Above them are portraits of George III and Napoleon, facing each other. After an engraving by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey on the occasion of the Treaty of Amiens which temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. The print is said to have much amused Napoleon. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]
Date
1921
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19G25_198
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
62,0Mo (5,0Mo) / 33,5cm x 46,3cm / 3961 x 5472 (300dpi)