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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
England Invaded, or Frenchmen Naturalized.
16 Mar 1798RCIN 810491
Fears of a French invasion of Britain heightened in 1797, when Napoleon amassed a sizeable ‘Army of England’. Rowlandson plays on this panic, showing a battle on British soil. The British are vanquishing the French, who are in flight back towards the windmill-powered barges it was commonly believed were being built to carry them across the Channel.
Probably purchased by George IV when Prince of Wales
Cat. 45
Bibliographic reference(s)
BM Satires : Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ... 11 v. in 12. BM Satires 9187
