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print, satirical print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by:Anonymous
Title
print, satirical print
Description
English: Satire: Napoleon rides a wooden horse on a desert island (St Helena). He is dressed in a harlequin costume, a hangman's noose around his neck and a snake around his waist. He is chained to a monkey (the Count de Las Cases) who writes his memoirs. The French flag and his emblem of the imperial eagle lie on the ground, while he holds a flag with bees, ironically symbolic of immortality and resurrection. He tries to fire a cannon but the Devil ("l'homme rouge") extinguishes the flame by urinating on it. In the sky appear the coats-of-arms of his enemies: Prussia, Britain, Austria, Spain and the Bourbon kings of France. Death appears in a boat on the sea as the only solution to his exile. 1815-21
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of:Napoléon I, Emperor of the French
Date between 1815 and 1816
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions Height:260 millimetres Width:341 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2002,0224.13
Notes

See Catherine Clerc, 'La caricature contre Napoléon', Éditions Promodis, 1985, no.176.

The publication date of the print cannot be established, but the monkey appears to refer to the Count de las Cases who joined Napoleon in exile on St Helena at the end of 1815 and for eighteen months recorded their conversations. He eventually fell out with the British administration and the manuscript was seized. It was published in 1823, two years after Napoleon’s death.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2002-0224-13
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