A French Elephant
Hand-colored engraved caricature. 'Louis XVIII caricatured as an elephant, seen from behind. His broad bowed shoulders are the animal's hind-quarters, with an arc of bald head between side-pieces of powdered hair which serve as elephant's ears. A very narrow pointed coat-tail hangs between the pillarlike legs of the gouty king. Across the back is a ribbon from which dangles a fleur-de-lis' -- British Museum Hand-colored engraved caricature. 'Louis XVIII caricatured as an elephant, seen from behind. His broad bowed shoulders are the animal's hind-quarters, with an arc of bald head between side-pieces of powdered hair which serve as elephant's ears. A very narrow pointed coat-tail hangs between the pillarlike legs of the gouty king. Across the back is a ribbon from which dangles a fleur-de-lis' -- British Museum Upright; margins trimmed; clean. New York, Walter Schatzki, 1958. Title: A FRENCH ELEPHANT. Publd. by J.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
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