Buonaparte massacreing fifteen hundred persons at Toulon.
From a design by Mr. R. Ker Porter.
[n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Rare coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A propaganda piece showing the French Royalist civilians surrendering after the fall of Toulon in 1793 having cannons turned on them on the orders of Napoleon. In reality the victims were shot or bayoneted and Napoleon, who had been wounded, had already left the city to take up a new post. This print is a pirate copy, not particularly well executed, of a section of Porter's original aquatint, published by John Hatchard and John Ginger in 1803. It was published as a companion to 'Buonaparte massacreing three thousand eight hundred men at Jaffa'.
[Ref: 51698] £190.00
[n.d., c.1805.] Bit later.
Rare coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Trimmed.
A propaganda piece showing the French Royalist civilians surrendering after the fall of Toulon in 1793 having cannons turned on them on the orders of Napoleon. In reality the victims were shot or bayoneted and Napoleon, who had been wounded, had already left the city to take up a new post. This print is a pirate copy, not particularly well executed, of a section of Porter's original aquatint, published by John Hatchard and John Ginger in 1803. It was published as a companion to 'Buonaparte massacreing three thousand eight hundred men at Jaffa'.
[Ref: 51698] £190.00