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Infinite Jest Metropolitan Museum of Art
Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012
http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibit...caricature-and-satire-from-leonardo-to-levine
Here is an 1805 print from the Met exhibition satirizing the Napoleonic Wars.
"The Plumb Pudding in Danger---or---State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper"--James Gillray 1805
From a review of the show:
"Perhaps the most familiar print to come out of Britain's wars against Napoleon is Gillray's "The Plumb Pudding in Danger---or---State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper." In it William Pitt, Britain's prime minister, and Napoleon dine at a table where they carve up an enormous plum pudding in the shape of the globe. Napoleon slices away all of Western Europe, including Hanover, a state belonging to George III. Pitt, for his part, has his fork in the Atlantic, and his knife is halfway to controlling half of the world. I find this cynical view of the conflict remarkable. Here was Gillray, his country in the midst of an all-out war, pointing out that the voracious imperial appetite of Britain was not terribly different from that of the alleged madman it was trying to eliminate. Conceptually it is one of the most biting commentaries on the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the funniest."
Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012
http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibit...caricature-and-satire-from-leonardo-to-levine
Here is an 1805 print from the Met exhibition satirizing the Napoleonic Wars.
"The Plumb Pudding in Danger---or---State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper"--James Gillray 1805
From a review of the show:
"Perhaps the most familiar print to come out of Britain's wars against Napoleon is Gillray's "The Plumb Pudding in Danger---or---State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper." In it William Pitt, Britain's prime minister, and Napoleon dine at a table where they carve up an enormous plum pudding in the shape of the globe. Napoleon slices away all of Western Europe, including Hanover, a state belonging to George III. Pitt, for his part, has his fork in the Atlantic, and his knife is halfway to controlling half of the world. I find this cynical view of the conflict remarkable. Here was Gillray, his country in the midst of an all-out war, pointing out that the voracious imperial appetite of Britain was not terribly different from that of the alleged madman it was trying to eliminate. Conceptually it is one of the most biting commentaries on the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the funniest."
