Napoleonic Caricatures

Boney and Talley; The Corsican Carcase - Butcher's Reckoning Day

Another warning by Gillray about the territorial ambitions of Napoleon Bonaparte. On the walls of the slaughterhouse are the bodies of countries already under French rule, with the French leader straining to get at Russia and Britain outside the door. Talleyrand holds him back.

- Printed September, 1803