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.
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
- Date:
- 1813
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- 12209i
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The horrified officer behind Napoleon exclaims: "Sacre Dieu! But tis the force of a Boney-party"
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1813
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; 17.7 x 35.2 cm
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Comparative anatomy or bone-ys new conscripts filling up the skeletons of the old regimints. G. Cruikshank fect.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, no. 12087
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Wellcome Collection 12209i
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