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Title: Boney's meditations on the Island of St. Helena--or--The Devil addressing the Sun
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Hannah Humphrey, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1815
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: While Cruikshank credits George Humphrey (G. H. invt.) with suggesting this caricature of Napoleon, as the devil incarnate, exiled on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, the print is an adaptation of James Gillray's 1782 etching, "Gloria Mundi, or--the Devil addressing the Sun," published by Hannah Humphrey.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 500; Douglas 734; Cohn 944; British Museum 12593
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "Pubd August 1815 by / H Humphrey St. James's St." at l.l.; "G.H invt. G Cruikshank fect" at l.r.; Verso, Vogler's stamp in black ink at l.r.
Type: image
Format: Print Etching with hand coloring
Form/Genre: Print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft396nb25m
1989.21.226
Subject: Caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; exiles; demons

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