Publisher
Henry G. Bohn
Publisher
H. Humphrey
DimensionsSheet: 19 1/8 × 24 3/4 in. (48.6 × 62.9 cm)
Plate: 12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (31.4 × 45.1 cm)
Plate: 12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (31.4 × 45.1 cm)
Accession Number 2023.28
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedJ-s Gillray desit & fecit (l,r plate)
InscriptionsPub-d Feb-y 20th 1805 by H. Humphrey St. James's Street London. (u,r plate)
Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact! (l,c plate)
Barrass (then in Power) being tired of Josephine, promised Buonaparte a promotion, on condition that he would take her off his hands; _Barrass had, as usual, drank freely, & placed Buonaparte behind a screen, while he amused himself with these two Ladies, who were then his humble dependents, - Madam Talian is a beautiful woman, tall & elegant. Josephine is smaller & thin, with bad teeth something like Cloves, _ it is needless to add that Buonaparte accepted the Promotion & the Lady. _now,_ Empress of France! _37 (l,c plate)
ProvenanceLahaina Printsellers, Ltd., Lahaina, HI;Jeffrey Hunter, Des Moines; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2023]
