A little man with a great appetite sitting down to dinner, published by I. Hays,...

In this satire, Napoleon's conquests are represented as dishes laid out on a table for his consumption. Seated at a large round table, Napoleon ignores the bottles of "French Spirits" and "Bordeaux" as well as various plates labeled "Swiss Cheese," "TURKEY," "Dutch Herrings," "Austrian Sour Crout," "Naples Biscuit," "Polish Goose," "Regal Plumb Cake" and "Swedish Preserves." Instead, he hungrily eyes a large mound of "English Roast Beef" in a pool of gravy displayed on a platter on the sideboard. The roast and its gravy dressing resembles the cliffs of Dover that rise above the Channel. Like the shoreline of England, the roast is heavily guarded by war ships - comically, a small figure stands at the base of a flagpole planted firmly in the roast. Here, Napoleon's ambition is characterized as unbounded appetite. Despite the number of dishes that clutter his table, the plate in front of him remains empty while his knife and fork are poised to cut into the roast.