Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
After Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, James Gillray published this etching, which shows the emperor pulling "imperial gingerbread," labeled with the names of three German territories, from the "new French oven." Behind the emperor is French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord kneading the dough to prepare Hungary, Poland, and Turkey for transformation under Napoleonic rule. Here, Gillray uses the vocabulary of satire to highlight the rate of Napoleon's conquests and his creation and installation of loyal rulers, expressing British anxieties over the French emperor's growing dominance across Europe.
Caption
James Gillray (British, 1757–1815). Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings, 1806. Etching and watercolor (hand coloring) on wove paper, image: 9 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. (23.8 × 36.5 cm) sheet: 10 × 14 5/8 in. (25.4 × 37.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Dr. Marion Reilly, 29.250. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Title
Tiddy-doll the Great French Gingerbread Baker Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings
Date
1806
Medium
Etching and watercolor (hand coloring) on wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
image: 9 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. (23.8 × 36.5 cm) sheet: 10 × 14 5/8 in. (25.4 × 37.1 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. Marion Reilly
Accession Number
29.250
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