English: Napoleon (left) tied to a post, his hands clasped, watches with famished eagerness Mr and Mrs Bull at their Christmas dinner. He is without hat and sword and his hair is tousled. John (right) sits facing him, in front of a large joint of beef stuck with sprigs of holly as in BMSat 9913. He is a fat 'cit' with carbuncled nose, his napkin round his neck, holding knife and fork, with food speared on his knife. He says: "Yes – Yes – the Beef is very good – so is the pudding too – but the deuce a morsel do you get of either Master Boney". Mrs Bull, on John's right, holds a large frothing tankard, decorated with the Royal Arms; she grins sideways at Napoleon, saying, "Your health Master Boney wishing you a merry Christmas". The round table covered with a cloth is more than half covered by beef and a cannon-ball pudding. December 1803

Hand-coloured etching

Inscription content: Lettered: 'Pubd Decr 1803 by W. Holland N° 11 Cockspur Street London.'