Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved fishing industry St Giles-in-the-Fields

St Giles-in-the-Fields

showing Tom Nero

with figures in the foreground

Baumes House was the former residence of Sir George Whitmore

'Gambols on the River Thames

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved fishing industry St Giles-in-the-FieldsNapoleon on a plate ready to be carved, 1814. A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte, who appears, skewered like a fowl, on a plate, bearing the City arms, alongside which lies a sword inscribed Blucher's carving Knife. This is a reference to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, a Prussian who defeated the French and captured 18,000 prisoners before entering Paris, aged 71. A man possibly John Bull, the personification of England frolics in a frothing