Yale Center for British Art

Title:

The rose, shamrock, & thistle.

Alternate Title(s):

Rose, shamrock, and thistle.

Published / Created:

[Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], [1815]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 17 x 13 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DC239 .R67 1815+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

"To general union, this plate containing profiles of eight illustrious personages is most humbly inscribed, by a friend of liberty."

"Left side: Prince Regent, King of Prussia, Marshall Blucher. Right side: King of England, Emperor of Austria, Duke of Wellington. Center: Louis XVIII, Emperor of Russia."

BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Trimmed to plate mark.

A picture puzzle engraving of a patriotic posy, the leaves of which frame voids in the shape of the profiles of eight British and European leaders in coalition against Napoleon. It may have been produced as a response to the Bonapartist "Corporal Violette," whose flower included profiles of the Emperor Napoleon, Maria Louisa, and the young King of Rome.

Subject Terms:

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777–1825. | Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742–1819. | Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768–1835. | Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770–1840. | George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820. | George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830. | Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755–1824. | Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852. | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 -- Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814–1815. | Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1815. | Signs and symbols -- Political aspects -- Europe. | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800–1837.

Form/Genre:

Botanical illustrations. | Optical illustions. | Trompe l'oeil. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1815. | Picture puzzles.