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2 parodies of Napoleon's apparent rise from humble beginings to imperial grandeur, the former depicting ragged relatives marvelling at his elevation, while he has them enrolled in the Legion of Honor, the latter shows him bouncing off a large frog from the Barren Mountains of Corsica to the Imperial Throne and Diadem, 2 original hand-coloured engravings, 250 x 350mm. and 240 x 340mm., respectively, [the former not in BM cat but the original drawing in the Bodleian Library, the latter BM Satires 10278], William Holland, 1804 § Williams (Charles) Sailors in Westminster Abbey, speculating that the inscription on Kent's monument to Shakespeare, The Cloud Cap.t Towers, must refer to a French vessel named after 'the place Boney lives at', original hand-coloured engraving, 335 x 230mm., slight browning, trimmed to image and title, [BM Satires 10330], S.W. Fores, 1804 (3)