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Memoirs of Buonaparte, His Imperial Family, Great Officers of State, and Great Military Officers.
London: Printed and Published by G.Smeeton, 17, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. Price Sixpence. [n.d., c.1814.]
Rare broadsheet, with engraved portrait 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½", set in letterpress with printed border, sheet 425 x 275mm, 16¾ x 10¾". Some creasing and significant loss to lower right corner.
A scurrilous attack on Napoleon Bonaparte, probably published in the last days of the campaign that led to his abdication in 1814. (The last date in the text is 1813.) Apparently Napoleon's mother was a brothel keeper and at sixteen he poisoned a girl he had made pregnant. The portrait, after one by Johann Michael Voltz is a 'hieroglyphic': 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55852] £280.00
London: Printed and Published by G.Smeeton, 17, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. Price Sixpence. [n.d., c.1814.]
Rare broadsheet, with engraved portrait 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½", set in letterpress with printed border, sheet 425 x 275mm, 16¾ x 10¾". Some creasing and significant loss to lower right corner.
A scurrilous attack on Napoleon Bonaparte, probably published in the last days of the campaign that led to his abdication in 1814. (The last date in the text is 1813.) Apparently Napoleon's mother was a brothel keeper and at sixteen he poisoned a girl he had made pregnant. The portrait, after one by Johann Michael Voltz is a 'hieroglyphic': 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55852] £280.00
Napoleon
[After Johann Michael Voltz]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Cut and glued onto backing sheet, cutting the top of his hat.
A satirical bust length portrait of Napoleon based on a head engraved by Lehmann after a portrait by Dahling. 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55853] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[After Johann Michael Voltz]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Cut and glued onto backing sheet, cutting the top of his hat.
A satirical bust length portrait of Napoleon based on a head engraved by Lehmann after a portrait by Dahling. 'The French Eagle, crouching, forms his hat: the red collar represents the River Rhine, and the black border above it, the Rhinish Confederacy; the letters on the fingers are the initials of Austria Russia, Sweden and Prussia; and the Cuff of the Sleeve emblematic of Great Britain, by whose influence and power the Allies are bound together; the R. signifying the Regent The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition; the spider is a symbolic emblem of the rancour and venon of Buonepart's heart; and the web illustrative of the flimsy tenure by which he at present holds his kingdom". His bust forms a map of Germany highlighting the battles fought there.
[Ref: 55853] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)