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Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit". Gillray's caricatures ridiculing Napoleon greatly annoyed the Frenchman, who wanted them suppressed by the British government.[9] James Gillray - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8795 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (49 MB), level color (pick white point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5. Maniac-raving's-or-Little Boney in a strong fit / Js. Gillray inv. & fect. SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Napoleon in a fury over relations between France and England. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : pubd. by Js. Gillray, 1803. According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 227, "A parody on Lord Whitworth's dispatch of the 14th of March, 1803, describing the violent scene which had occurred the day before at the Tuilleries. 'The exasperation and fury of Buonaparte, ' says the Annual Register for the year just mentioned, 'broke out into ungovernable rage at his own Court, on his public day, and in the presence ofthe diplomatic body of Europe there assembled. Thus violating every principle of hospitality—of decorum—of politeness—and the privileges of Ambassadors—ever before held sacred. On the appearance of Lord Whitworth in the circle, he approached him with equal agitation and ferocity, proceeded to descant, in the bitterest terms, on the conduct of the English Government—summoned the Ministers of so
