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after George Saalez of Farnham, a satire expressing objections to the Convention of Cintra which allowed the French to keep their plunder, depicting John Bull and a man in Portuguese costume force a French officer to vomit up gold objects and coins to the horror of watching French soldiers, original hand-coloured etching, 255 x 340mm., a tear through the lower right platemark, not affecting image or title, [BM Satires 11046], R. Ackermann, 1808; A Great Man on his Hobby Horse, equestrian caricature of Napoleon bestriding the globe, elongated for perspective as if designed for a statue to top a tall column, etching, 460 x 180mm., trimmed just into upper and lower platemarks but outside image and text, erroneously dated 1813 in ink, lower right, some creasing and dampstaining, [BM Satires 9983], Thomas Williamson, 1803 § Cruikshank (George) [Boney receiving an Account of the Battle of Vittoria], original hand-coloured etching, 225 x 340mm., trimmed with loss of title but not affecting image, [BM Satires 12069], S. Knight, 1813; with a late 18th century French caricature, Arriere Garde Du Pape, engraving, 225 x 345mm., dampstained, surface dirt, [c.1797] (4)