English manners and French prudence or French dragoons brought to a check by a Belvoir leap

Hand-colored etched caricature after Rowlandson, published 25 November 1811. 'An English hussar officer, Lord Charles Manners, holding his sabre against his shoulder, takes a flying leap across a stream, looking composedly over his left shoulder at French mounted soldiers, whose horses have checked at the stream. He says "Adieu Messieurs." The foremost Frenchman cries "Sacrebleu!!!," the others Mais Comment?"; "Quel Diable d'anglois"; and "Est il possible." Their horses are clumsy compared with the English thoroughbred. Each Frenchman has a different uniform. The scene is a barren plain sloping to the stream from a mountainous background, with soldiers marching in the distance. Two small frogs in the foreground (right) gape at the frustrated pursuers' -- British Museum Hand-colored etched caricature after Rowlandson, published 25 November 1811. 'An English hussar officer, Lord Charles Manners, holding his sabre against his shoulder, takes a flying leap across a stream, looking composedly over his left shoulder at French mounted soldiers, whose horses have checked at the stream. He says "Adieu Messieurs." The foremost Frenchman cries "Sacrebleu!!!," the others Mais Comment?"; "Quel Diable d'anglois"; and "Est il possible." Their horses are clumsy compared with the English thoroughbred. Each Frenchman has a different uniform. The scene is a barren plain sloping to the stream from a mountainous background, with soldiers marching in the distance. Two small frogs in the foreground (right) gape at the frustrated pursuers' -- British Museum Small oblong folio; plate mark, margins intact; clean. London, Spencer, 1955.