The Emperor of the gulls in his stolen gear

Napoleon, puffed up and unaware of his ridiculously small stature, marches onto the scene from the left side of the sheet. He wears a large headdress ornamented with Spanish coins and topped with daggers and a chalice of poison. He carries a large scepter that is topped with a small guillotine. George III stands in the center of the image and peers through a magnifying glass at Napoleon. George III is shown in profile and assumes a pose that reprises Gillray's caricature wherein Napoleon is cast as Lemuel Gulliver and George III as the King of Brobdingnag. John Bull, a sturdy peasant stands to the right of George III. Bull turns to address the viewer full-face, and so includes the viewer in the punch line of the satire. To the left and slightly behind Napoleon, a large bullfrog has puffed himself so full of air that his side has split and his entrails begin to spill out. An ox comically assumes a pose similar to that of George III and calmly regards the frog with interest. These two animals enact the second title of the print, which is inscribed at the lower center of the image. The caption, "The Frog and the Ox" refers to Aesop's fable. Napoleon, puffed up and unaware of his ridiculously small stature, marches onto the scene from the left side of the sheet. He wears a large headdress ornamented with Spanish coins and topped with daggers and a chalice of poison. He carries a large scepter that is topped with a small guillotine. George III stands in the center of the image and peers through a magnifying glass at Napoleon. George III is shown in profile and assumes a pose that reprises Gillray's caricature wherein Napoleon is cast as Lemuel Gulliver and George III as the King of Brobdingnag. John Bull, a sturdy peasant stands to the right of George III. Bull turns to address the viewer full-face, and so includes the viewer in the punch line of the satire. To the left and slightly behind Napoleon, a large bullfrog has puffed himself so full of air that his side has split and his entrails begin to spill out. An ox comically assumes a pose similar to that of George III and calmly regards the frog with interest. These two animals enact the second title of the print, which is inscribed at the lower center of the image. The caption, "The Frog and the Ox" refers to Aesop's fable. Dialogue: Napoleon: "There Brother! there! I shall be as Big as you, its a real Crown, but it is cursed heavy, my Head begins to Ache already, I say can't we have a grand meeting like Henry the VIIIth and Francis the Ist?" Dialogue: George III: "What have we got here eh? a Fellow that has stolen some Dollars and made a Crown of them, eh? and then wants to pass them off for Sterling, it won't go, it won't pass Fellow." Dialogue: John Bull: "Dang it why a looks as tho a'd burst a'l ne'rr be zo big as one of our Oxen tho." Inscription: Pubd May 28th 1804 by SW Fores, 50 Piccadilly. Inscription: Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening. Inscription: The Roman [struck through] French People were grossly gulled twice or thrice over and as often enslaved in one Century, and under the same pretense of Reformation.
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