xml/lby.00120.xml Icons of Liberty: "Boney beating Mack—And Nelson giving him a Whack"

George Cruikshank, "Boney beating Mack—And Nelson giving him a Whack," (1805)

George Cruikshank, "Boney beating Mack—And Nelson giving him a Whack" (1805). Reproduced from George M. Dorothy, English Political Caricature 1793-1832, Volume Two, Clarendon Press, 1959, Plate 32. Cruikshank's first cartoon at age 13, shows Nelson bringing ashore captured French ships to Britannia, who holds a liberty cap, while Napoleon parlays with Mack on the continent.