The title continues: 'talk of gullivers carrying off fifty ships at once, why it was nothing to him!' a military ogre with a gigantic head devours french soldiers: five and a horse are between his teeth, others are impaled on his two forks, yet others are crushed under his feet as he strides to the left, after the fleeing army. He wears a fur cap with skull and cross-bones as in bmsat 9387. Above the fleeing soldiers: 'o begar if he once get to paris the directory will scarce serve him for a breakfast. ' 1 june 1799
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1799. Dimensions: Height: 256 mm; Width: 358 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras. Collection: British Museum. Genl. Swallow destroying the French army (BM J,4.199)
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