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The drunkard's children

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 22 x 33.7 cm.

A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

1 print : etching, with white heightening ; image 22 x 33.7 cm.

A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 22 x 33 cm.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

<p>According to the Art journal, loc. cit., the episode was "briefly recorded by Sir Walter Scott" and "Bourrienne, Napoleon's old schoolfellow, supplies, in his Life of the Emperor, more complete particulars concerning the imprisonment". The painting had been exhibited at the British Institution in 1841 and acquired by the 1st Duke of Wellington. Napoleon sits at a table in a prison cell studying a map. On the wall behind he has scratched the words "Vive la rep[ublique]. Napoleon Bo[naparte] 1783". A prison warden opens the cell door to admit an official holding a  letter in his hand </p>

1 print : engraving ; platemark 34 x ca. 26.8 cm

Napoleon in prison in Nice. Engraving by J. Outrim after E.M. Ward.

<p>Bible, N.T. Acts 12.6-9. On the right, the armed prison guard sleeps. A fisherman on the lake of Genezareth in Galilee, Saint Peter was, with his brother Andrew, the first of the Apostles. His name was Simon; he was renamed Peter (Kephas in Aramaic, Petros in Greek) by Jesus to indicate that he would be the cornerstone (petra) of the Church. Often depicted with one or two keys, representing his role as gatekeeper of heaven. In the Middle Ages he was invoked against fevers, bouts of madness and snake-bite. Because Peter had put to flight the dogs sent against him by Simon the Magus (in the apocryphal Acts of Peter), hot keys called "the key of St. Peter" (clef de Saint Pierre)  were applied to dogs and ther owners to protect them from rabies</p>

Saint Peter: an angel releases him from prison. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.

1 print : etching, with white heightening ; image 21.9 x 32.9 cm.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Adamson Collection

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 55.8 x 76.2 cm

The yard of a prison surrounded by barbed wire: two prisoners and a guard are in the yard, while a third person looks through the fence; hills beyond. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Napoleon in prison in Nice. Engraving by J. Outrim after E.M. Ward.

Saint Peter: an angel releases him from prison. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

The yard of a prison surrounded by barbed wire: two prisoners and a guard are in the yard, while a third person looks through the fence; hills beyond. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

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A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Napoleon in prison in Nice. Engraving by J. Outrim after E.M. Ward.

Saint Peter: an angel releases him from prison. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.

A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

The yard of a prison surrounded by barbed wire: two prisoners and a guard are in the yard, while a third person looks through the fence; hills beyond. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

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