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"Praetor-Urbanus;"-Inaguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
"Praetor-Urbanus;"-Inaguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune.
Description
English: A grotesque, obese, black Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides (right to left) an ass which, though led procession-ally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters. The 'Mayor' wears a French military coat and breeches, with a tricolour scarf and cocked hat with large tricolour plumes. He is otherwise naked, and a heavy chain of beads hangs from his ear. The 'Procureur' is naked except for a cocked hat and tricolour scarf; he carries a (?) goad as a staff of office. Behind his ear is a pen. 12 March 1799
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 253 millimetres
Width: 359 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
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1868,0808.6828
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) See BMSat 9355, &c. The print seems to illustrate a passage in the Introduction (p. x) to the second series of 'Letters': Bonaparte (in Cairo) 'selects a few poor wretches from the dregs of the populace, cloaths them in tri-coloured scarfs, dignifies them with the name of Cheiks and Agas . . .', although such 'Coptic scribes and Jew pedlars have been for ages in Egypt objects of contempt and odium'. Bonaparte established Egyptian notables as a 'Divan général de l'Égypte' (with local 'Divans' at Cairo and elsewhere), with president, secretary, &c. Charles-Roux, 'Bonaparte, Gouverneur d'Égypte', 1935, pp. 188-90. Cf. a print (reproduced ibid., p. 112) of Napoleon giving the tricolour scarf to a Bey of Egypt. See also BMSat 9362, a copy.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 256-7. Wright and Evans, No. 224. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Charles-Roux, op. cit., p. 96.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6828
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