Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved fishing industry Baumes House was the former

Baumes House was the former residence of Sir George Whitmore

carriages and a streetseller on the left

with flags and banners hanging from the ceiling

St Giles-in-the-Fields

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved fishing industry Baumes House was the formerNapoleon 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