The ghost of Buonaparte appearing to the directory!!!, Isaac Cruikshank, 1799

Bonaparte (left), standing among clouds, threatens the five directors with a large jagged sword. He wears a shirt, sash, and spurred boots only, and has a bleeding wound. He declaims angrily: "regicides, parricides, fratricides, & patricides, this is the effects of your insatiable thirst for conquest, this is your reward for my glorious achievements in italy, germany, &c - to die by the hand of an assassin, - a d------d musselman; & all my brave legions destroyed by water melons & the arabs. Go murderers in cold blood; may your conscious guilt ever prey upon your vitals; & may the name of nelson ever haunt you sleeping & waking. " the directors, wearing their plumed hats (except one whose hair rises) and elaborate cloaks (see bmsat 9199), shrink in terror. They are seated at an oblong table on which is a paper: 'item to send buonaparte to egypt to prevent his organizing the directory. ' 1 january 1799 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1799. Dimensions: Height: 242 mm; Width: 341 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras. Collection: British Museum. The ghost of Buonaparte appearing to the directory!!! (BM 1868,0808.6810 1)