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| Creator: | Gillray, James |
| Title: | Tiddy-doll, the great French gingerbread-baker, drawing out a new batch of kings / Js Gillray invd & fec |
| Imprint: | : London : H.Humphrey |
| Date: | 1806 |
| Format: | Etching |
| Ref. no.: | P&D000204 |
| Copies: |
NAP: Heber Mardon D 204 |
| Coverage: | . France . Monarchs . Napoleon I . Caricatures . 1806 |
| Last Updated: |
09/12/2004 |
| Associated text: |
Boney exhibition -63- TIDDY-DOLL, THE GREAT FRENCH GINGERBREAD-BAKER, DRAWING OUT A NEW BATCH OF KINGS. / Js Gillray invd & fec. - London : Published...by H.Humphrey 27 St Jamess Street , Jan 23d 1806. Heber Mardon B204; George 10518; Broadley A843. After Austerlitz Napoleon treated the rulers of Europe like pieces on a chessboard and this brilliant satire, full of detail, contains a number of prophetic insights. The print, published in January 1806, shows in a basket the Corsican kinglings: Joseph, to become King of Naples in March 1806, Louis, to become King of Holland in June 1806, and Jerome, to become King of Westphalia in July 1807. No doubt Napoleon's sisters and their husbands are also in the basket. The three kings being taken out of the oven reflect the provisions of the Treaty of Pressburg (26 November 1805) where Austria renounced rights over Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Baden. Gillray was not so accurate with his model of the little dough viceroys. Although untitled they represent the Whig politicians Sheridan, Fox, Moira and Derby, and are a vicious sideswipe at their policy of appeasement. The caricature of Talleyrand in the background cruelly depicts his surgical shoe, wrongly placed on his left foot. The original Tiddy-Doll was the gingerbread-baker Ford, a well-known London character who died in 1752 and was depicted by Hogarth. |
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