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  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • Emperor Napoleon congratulating Baron Larrey in 1813. Engraving after Steuben.
  • Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • The coffin of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lithograph by J.B. Arnout.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • Battle of Ratisbon: Napoleon, shot in the ankle, mounts his horse to join battle before the dressing of the wound is finished. Coloured engraving after C. Gautherot, 1828.
  • The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon visiting wounded soldiers in a church used as a field hospital after the battle. Coloured lithograph.
  • Napoléon I and Marie Louise with their new born son. Engraving by A. Godefroy after Adolphe Roehn.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his character as Napolean : is 12 years old, 25 inches high and weighs 15 pounds.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: head and shoulders. Stipple print by M. Mercoli after L. Bacler d'Albe.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • A bare-knuckled boxing match between the Prince of Wales and Napoleon, with their supporters including a black man. Coloured etching by Charles Williams, 1815.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Napoleon visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa. Aquatint by G.A. Lehmann after Baron Gros.
  • Britannia as a patient who is in danger of death owing to disagreement between her three doctors over their competing remedies; representing the weakness of Britain during the replacement of Addington by Pitt as Prime Minister and the exclusion of Fox. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Wood engraving after J. Ward.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Plain answers to plain questions, in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte : met half-seas over between Dover and Calais.
  • The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Lithograph after Captain Marryat.