Grosvenor Prints

[Napoleon] The Blindfolded Austrian Officer.
[by George Cruikshank.]
London. Published by Thomas Tegg. No 111. Cheapside. Dec. 1. 1814.
Aquatint, printed in brown. Sheet 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Edges stained.
Napoleon Bonaparte in a tent with three massive guards and a fourth making up for his lack of stature by standing on a stool. Another officer brings a blindfolded Austrian to surrender to Napoleon after the Battle of Ulm. From 'The life of Napoleon: a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos', possibly by William Combe.
BM Satires 12462.
[Ref: 55791] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon] Burning the Mosques.
[by George Cruikshank.]
London. Published by Thomas Tegg. No 111. Cheapside. Dec. 4th. 1814.
Aquatint, printed in brown. Sheet 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Edges stained.
Napoleon Bonaparte directing the burning of the Great Mosque and other mosques to quell the Cairo Uprising during the Egyptian Campaign, 1798. From 'The life of Napoleon: a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos', possibly by William Combe.
BM Satires 12464.
[Ref: 55789] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon] Pursued by Cossacks.
[by George Cruikshank.]
London. Published by Thomas Tegg. No 111. Cheapside. Jan. 9. 1815.
Aquatint, printed in brown. Sheet 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"). Edges stained, messy.
A diminutive Napoleon leaps from the side-window of a ramshackle hut as a Cossack strikes at the door with an axe. From 'The life of Napoleon: a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos', possibly by William Combe.
BM Satires 12480.
[Ref: 55788] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Coup de Pommade. Le Jour de la fête du Village.
H.F. [in image.]
A Paris chez Passet, rue S.t. Jaques N.o.64.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 310mm (9½ x 12"). Trimmed within plate.
An interior scene in which a French peasant sits before a fire while his wife dresses his hair in preparation for the Village Fete. Plate 6 from a series titled 'Le Démocrite du Siecle, N.o.6'.
[Ref: 36165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Death and Bonaparte.
T. Rowlandson del.t.
[London: Ackermann, c.1813.]
Aquatint with original hand colour. Sheet 205 x 225mm (8 x 8¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Narrow margins, folded as issued.
A skeletal Death, seated on a dismounted cannon, facing Napoleon Bonaparte seated on a drum, both cradling their heads in their hands. The scene was first published in 1813 as a broadside: 'Copy of the Transparency exhibited at Ackermann's Repository of Arts, During the Illuminations of the 5th and 6th of November, 1813, in honour of the splendid Victories obtained by The Allies over the Armies of France, at Leipsic and its environs. The Two Kings of Terror'. This version, with the engraved title added, was issued as a folding plate in a book.
See BM Satires 12093 for the broadside version.
[Ref: 53241] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon & Elba] Ah! Papa, tu t'es fait bien du mal.
[n.d., c.1814.]
Rare etching. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
Napoleon lies on his back measuring a wall map of Elba with a pair of compasses. His young son, dressed in uniform like his father's, speaks the title, 'Ah! Daddy, you're doing yourself a lot of harm'. Napoleon says 'Quelle Chule' (What foot odour).
[Ref: 55781] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Fox & the Goose; or, Boney Broke Loose!
Designed by P. H. Esq.r. [George Cruikshank].
[Published March 17 1815 by Whittle & Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London].
Hand coloured etching. 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Damage to margins and significant loss to the title area and publication line. Losses in both the upper left and right corners. Marginalia in top left corner and bottom right.
A very damaged impression of this rare print showing satirical portrayal of Napoleon running from Elba to Paris as a fox with a human head and brandishing a sword. A stream of geese guided by a courier also fly from Elba to the Congress of Vienna, depicted in the inset in the top left corner as seven birds. Four of the birds have human heads, who can be identified in respective anti-clockwise order as the Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, the emperor of Austria, and finally Wellington. The mounted officer atop Elba is likely Col. Neil Campbell, the British Comissioner in Elba. On either side of the land refugees can be seen desperately escaping by boat.
[Ref: 55849] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

L'Accolade Perfide. [/] Le Baiser Impossible. [The Treacherous Hug. Impossible Kiss.] Ce cher Parent! je vole dans ses bras. [/] Mon gros ami, qu'ily a longtems que nous ne nous sommes ous, embrassons nous.
A Paris chez Martinet. Rue du Coq St. Honoré.
Hnad coloured etching with large margins. Platemark: 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13½").
Two humorous satirical scenes on one sheet, both showing men greeting each other, with words expressing their feelings in french below. By caricaturist, etcher and lithographer Victor Auger (1787-1833) who worked for Martinet, and seems to have made most of the series 'Goût du Jour'.
[Ref: 36171] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vive la Republic! - Vive les Gueux! - A Bas les Aristocrats!
C.W. [C. Wyndham]
[1842.]
Rare etching with fine colour, with letterpress title. 300 x 185mm (11¾ x 7¼"), with large margins, signed and dated in ink by the artist on verso. A few stains in the margins.
A caricature of a French guardsman, hands in pockets, musket slung on his back, smoking a clay pipe.
[Ref: 55757] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Fifth of November or The Gun Powder Plot. HB Sketches 229.
HB [John Doyle]. A. Ducote's Lithography. 70 St. Martins Lane.
Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, Nov. 9th 1832.
Lithograph. Size: 370 x 280mm. (14½ x 11").
A depiction of Talleyrand, as Guy Fawkes and Palmerston, also a cloaked conspirator. Some regard Talleyrand as one of the most versatile, skilled and influential diplomats in European history, and some believe that he was a traitor, betraying in turn, the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration.
BM satires: 17297.
[Ref: 31417] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Return of a Body of Irregulars. This Print is most respectfully dedicated to the South Herts. Yeomanry by an Amateur Mars.
EC [Edward Corbould.]
[Published in London by T. Parker, c.1840.]
Scarce lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet 315 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Tears taped.
Drunken cavalrymen bring chaos to the centre of Hatfield. A poster to the right is dated 1840.] Probably raised for the Chartist Riots.
Ogilvy 1906.
[Ref: 55902] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull and Bonaparte!! To the Tune of the Blue Bell of Scotland. When and O when does this little Boney come? / Perhaps he'll come in August! - perhaps he'll stay at home; / But it's O in my heart, how I'll hide him should he come...
Woodward del. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Foxing.
John Bull, a fat citizen in old-fashioned dress, facing down Napoleon Bonaparte, wearing an outsize bicorn and carrying a huge sabre, across the Channel. Britain ended the Peace of Amiens when it declared war on France in May 1803.
BM Satires 10064.
[Ref: 54575] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Johnny Newcome] Smells Powder for the first time.
Drawn and Etch'd by Rowlandson.
London Pub.d Feb.y 1.st 1815 by P. Martin 198 Oxford Street.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A battle scene with Johnny holding a sword, at the end of a long line of soldiers, charging forward with bayonets as the French flee to the right. In the bottom right a trooper clears the pockets of a wounded Frenchman. From "The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of his Campaigns in the Peninsular and in Pall Mall: with Sketches by Rowlandson", a satire on soldiers in the Peninsular Wars.
BM Satires: 12489.
[Ref: 55892] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Military Contrast.
[by Matthew Darley.]
Pub. May 1. 1773 Accord. to Act by MDarly 39 Strand.
Coloured etching. 175 x 245mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, tear in bottom margin taped.
On the left is a veteran redcoat, one-eyed, one-armed and one-legged; on the right is a dandy officer, peering at the veteran though a monocle.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 55903] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Military Discoveries.] On recovering from a swoon, you Discover it was occasioned by your horse being shot under you, and in the fall broke your leg; on looking round you see both friend and enemy leaving you in the lurch , that your only company are a pack of low bred things, who have actually had the honour to be killed by sword or bullet, while you have happened of nothing more than a common place accident.
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1818 watermark; 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins. Slight soiling, crack in bottom plate mark.
A cavalryman wakes to find the battle has moved on. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Sanuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55783] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Military Discoveries.] Being awoke by a violent noise, and rushing from your quarters, you Discover your Colonel who commands you, immediately to resist a serious and unexpected attack made on the Camp by the Enemy, without waiting for any additonal Clothes
[by Henry Thomas Alken.]
London, Published Mar 24, 1819 by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place.
Rare coloured aquatint. 23 x 300 (9 x 11¾") very large margins.
Men pulling on their clothes as their colonel swings his sabre, wearing only shirt, jacket and cap. From 'Military Discoveries or, The Miseries of campaigning in a series of seven plates being Hints to Young Officers' by Ben Tally-Ho, a pseudonym of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), second son of Samuel Alken.
Rare: not in Abbey.
[Ref: 55784] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Military Salutation.
[Piercy Roberts crudely scratched from plate.]
Pub.d Jan.y 1. [1807 scratched from plate] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet size: 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed inside plate. Light creasing. Some surface dirt.
A fashionably dressed slim young man, stands with his clasped hands, facing a man with his arms and legs in wrappings, and says, 'stand at ease'. The ailing figure, wearing a night cap, sits in an armchair with his legs resting on a stool, answers, his face distorted with pain, 'Yes - its very fine talking - but if you had such a Confounded Gout, as I have young man You'd find it d----d difficult to sit at ease'.
BM Satires 10912.
[Ref: 36181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ham. What looked he frowningly? / Hor. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. Star No. 33.
T.C. Wilson. T.C. Wilson sc. Alvey lith 128 London Road.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Tear taped.
The ghost of Napoleon Bonaparte admonishes Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
[Ref: 49495] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Tomb of Napoleon.
Sketched Etched and Published by G. Cruikshank. [n.d., c.1834.]
Coloured etching, pt J. Whatman 18.. watermark. Sheet 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10½"). Trimmed.
A view of the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, where Napoleon Bonaparte died on 5th May 1821, surrounded by eight military and Napoleonic vignettes. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 55792] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Napoleon fighting Jack Tar and John Bull] Frontispiece. See Page 4.
Vaughan delin. Barlow sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed within plate, lateral edges chipped.
Napoleon scrapping with figures representing Britain's army and navy. His hat and broken sword lie on the ground.
[Ref: 55799] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Tomb of Napoleon.
Sketched Etched and Published by G. Cruikshank. [n.d., c.1834.]
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11").
A view of the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, where Napoleon Bonaparte died on 5th May 1821, surrounded by eight military and Napoleonic vignettes. A satirical print from 'My Sketch Book' 1834 by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878).
[Ref: 12016] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon. The First, and Last, by the Wrath of Heaven Emperor of the Jacobins, Protector of the Confederation of Rogues, Mediator of the Hellish League, Grand Cross of the Legion of Horror, Commander in Chief of the Legions of Skeletons left at Moscow, Smolensk, Leipzig, &c., Head Runner of Runaways, Mock High-Priest of the Sanhedrim, Mock Prophet of Mussulmen, Mock Pillar of the Christian Faith, Inventor of the Syrian Method of disposing of his own Sick by sleeping Draughts, or of captured Enemies by the Bayonet; First Grave-Digger for burying alive; Chief Gaoler of the Holy Father and of the King of Spain, Destroyer of Crowns, and Manufacturer of Counts, Dukes, Princes, and Kings; Chief Douanier of the Continental System, Head Butcher of the Parisian and Toulonese Massacres, Murderer of Hoffer, Palm, Wright, nay, of his own Prince the noble and virtuous Duke of Enghien, and of a Thousand others; Kidnapper of Ambassadors, High-Admiral of the Invasion Praams, Cup-bearer of the Jaffa Poison, Arch-Chancellor of Waste-Paper Treaties, Arch-Treasurer of the Plunder of the World, the Sanguinary Coxcomb, Assassin, and Incendiary......to / MAKE PEACE WITH !!! / This Hieroglyphic Portrait of the DESTROYER is faithfully copied from a German Print, with the parody of his assumed titles. The Hat of the Destroyer represents a discomfited French Eagle, maimed and crouching, after his Conflict with the Eagles of the North. His Visage is composed of the Carcases of the Victims of his Folly and Ambition, who perished on the Plains of Russia and Saxony. His Throat is encircled with the Red Sea, in Allusion to his drowned Hosts. His Epaulette is a Hand, leading the Rhenish Confederation, under the flimsy Symbol of a Cobweb. The Spider is an Emblem of the Vigilance of the Allies, who have inflicted on That Hand a deadly Sting!'
[Harrison & Leigh Printers, 375 Strand.]
Published at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand, London [n.d., c.1811].
Rare coloured etching and letterpress. Sheet 485 x 300mm (19 x 11¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Damaged and cut with some loss.
An important piece of anti-Napoleon propaganda, featuring a composite portrait made up of details of Bonaparte's 'sins', with explanatory letterpress underneath. Based on a print by Johann Michael Voltz, it is one of the most widespread depictions of Napoleon. Versions were produced in nine European countries, twenty-three in Germany alone.
BM Satires 12002.
[Ref: 55808] £350.00

[The Fall of Napoleon.]
[Painted by G. Wallis. Engraved by G. Zobel.]
[London, Published Jane 18th 1837, by J. McCormick, 147, Strand.]
Scarce & eare mezzotint. Sheet 320 x 265mm (12½ x 10½"). Trimmed within image, very damage, laid on old paper.
A scene outside the 'Waterloo Tavern' in 'Wellington Street'. A soldier and black figure smile at each other as the soldier trips up an Italian boy carrying on his head a board on which is balanced a statue of Napoleon that is about to crash to the ground. A church can be seen in the background to the right, and posters on the wall of the tavern to the left advertising a gala, 'Anniversary of the Glorious Battle of Waterloo' at Vauxhall Gardens, and a performance of 'The Fall of Napoleon', or 'The Unfortunate Italian' at the Theatre Royal, in celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.
The original painting is in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery (OP486).
[Ref: 55754] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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

The Great. The Fat. The Past. The Present.
[n.d. c.1840.]
A scarce lithograph. 212 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Cut and laid on scrap sheet. Some staining.
'The Great': A soldier with a great past and probably considered a great leader. 'The Fat': that same soldier, having retired has resorted to eating and drinking. Satirical comparison between Napoleon and Louis XVIII.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 14500] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis XVIII] A Pleasent Draught for Louis or the way to get rid of a troublesome fellow.
[by William Heath?]
[published by Thomas Tegg, 1814.]
Coloured etching; 1817 watermark. 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Paper toned, creased, repaired tear.
Louis XVIII, his gout-afflicted foot raised on a cushion, holds a wine-glass in which kneels a tiny screaming Napoleon, submerged to the waist, with both arms raised above his head. Louis took the throne of France soon after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814, exiling the former emperor to Elba. However his mismanagement of the country resulted in increased popular support for Napoleon after his escape the following year.
[Ref: 35974] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Queen's Own. To Be Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
B.C.
Just Published by T. Reed, 7 Vinegar Yard.
Scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 300 x 215mm (11¾ x 8½"). Trimmed, damage to corners, short tear, mounted on album paper.
An officer smoking a decorative pipe approaches a barracks, followed by a man carrying armfulls of 'Devil's Mortars' (spicy spreadable sausage).
See BM 1952,0517.70 for a very similar version published by Orlando Hodson.
[Ref: 55775] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Pitt & Napoleon]. The Rival Accoucheurs or Who shall Deliver Europe.
Pub.d July 01th [10th?] 1800 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching. 270 x 395mm (10¾ x 15½"), paper , watermarked 1793. Trimmed into plate top and bottom, slight stain in image.
Pitt as a quack doctor supported by Dundas, suggesting that his ''Mint Seed is the most Efficatious Remedy in the World''. A uncaricatured Napoleon, holding three cannon balls in his hand, replies ''I deny that Doctor, my Pills are far more certain in thier operation & much quicker in their effect...''. To the right a grotesque man pushes a short blunderbuss in the face of a gaping and terrified Austrian officer (probably Melas, who asked for an armistice after Marengo, 14 June). A satire on Pitt's policy of subsidizing continental powers, including a subsidy convention had been signed at Vienna for £2,000,000 on June 20th.
BM Satires 9544.
[Ref: 54460] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Caricature of Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 110 x 205mm (4¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper.
A caricatured scene of Napoleon firing a mortar, probably the Siege of Toulon in 1798, the engagement that first brought him to the attention of the nation.
[Ref: 55778] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene after the Battle of Vittoria or,- More trophies for White-Hall.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d July 10.th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") Time stained. Tear in bottom that goes into the plate mark. Laid on card.
Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured. Wellington is pictured sitting on his white horse, looks down at three officers who heap the spoils of war at his feet. A soldier is drags a cannon downhill by a rope. Two asses are harnessed tandem to the gun-carriage with two Frenchmen astride them.
BM: 12071
[Ref: 55837] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

St Swithins Chapel _ Cold bath fields -(NB not a Chapel of Ease.)
Sketched Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Myddleton Terrace Pentonville Dec.r 1833.
Etching on india laid paper, 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11").
A preacher addresses a crowd under umbrellas in the rain outside Coldbath Fields Prison (later also known as Clerkenwell Gaol) in the Clerkenwell area of London. Also other vignettes of figures under umbrellas in the rain, and Napoleon wrestling with a huge globe lower left. A satirical print on wet British weather from 'My Sketch Book' by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878). Swithun is one of the few Anglo-Saxon saints still known to most ordinary people because of his patronage of the English weather. He gives his name to a British weather lore proverb, which says that if it rains on Saint Swithun's day, 15th July, it will rain for 40 days.
[Ref: 12021] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Wellington] A Vision -- Past. Present.
William Heath.
Pub Feb 9th 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of W Heaths Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with wide margins.
Wellington's military success ('past') is contasted with his political instability ('present'). On the left he stands on cloud immediately above Napoleon's tomb, with Fame blowing her trumpet and holding a wreath over his head. On the right he kneels precariously on the summit of a globe which is crushing a number of artisans and farmers, some of whom try desperately to hold it up. It is covered, like a map, with islands or continents inscribed respectively 'Free Trade', 'National Debt', 'Currency', 'Taxes'. Dividing the two scenes, and in the upper part of the design, is a king enthroned, whose fleur-de-lis head identifies him as Charles X. Speech bubble coming from the fleur-de-lis reads 'all for me', the implication being that Napoleon's defeat served only to restore the Bourbons. This print was published only months before Charles was deposed in the July Revolution.
BM Satires: 16030.
[Ref: 43629] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 136

Catalogue 135

Catalogue 134

Advanced Search