The Allied Bakers
Satirical engraving of the allied commanders trying to shove Napoleon of France into an oven.
The Allied Bakers or the Corsican Toad-in-the-hole is an 1814 political caricature by the British illustrator George Cruikshank. It makes reference to Napoleon's Corsican heritage and the traditional British dish toad in the hole.
By the spring of 1814 the Napoleonic Wars were rapidly drawing to a conclusion as the Allies encircled Paris. Cruikshank represents the alliance against Napoleonic France as a group of bakers standing by an oven. The bakers of the Sixth Coalition are led by Marshal Blucher of Prussia and Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden to the left of the scene. A Dutch man sits below the bakers next to the oven.
Reflecting Austria's perceived ambiguous status Francis I (father-in-law of Napoleon) is shown pretending that the oven door is too stiff to the open. In sharp contrast the Duke of Wellington, representing Britain, strides forwards with two fresh pies emphasising his victories following the campaign in south-west France. A notable omission is Tsar Alexander I, ruler of Russia and a key participant in the alliance. The Russians are instead represented by Mikhail Vorontsov who stands between Bernadotte and Blucher.
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