print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8223
- Title
- Object: Le sauteur impérial
- Description
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One of Post-Waterloo French prints (Nos 12562-12577) arranged and numbered by George before authentic dates were ascertained from De Vinck. Blücher (left) and Wellington (right) face each other in profile, holding the ends of a rope over which they make Napoleon skip. Blücher rests his left hand on his long sabre; he says: "mon petit camarade le saut périlleux." Wellington, his left hand on his hip, says: "Sire Saute pour le Roi [cf. No. 12245]." He and Napoleon wear cocked hats; Blücher is bareheaded. Napoleon, short, fat, and round, jumps high, feet together, holding up his coat-tails. He faces Blücher, with a melancholy scowl, saying, "messieurs ce jeu la me déplaît c'est le dernier tour que je vous fait [sic]."
August 1815
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1815
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 297 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Cf. No. 12570.
Broadley, ii. 73 f. (reproduction). De Vinck, No. 9601. Van Stolk, No. 6446. [In De Vinck, and Van Stolk, with 'déposé' [17 Aug. 1815] and additional title: 'grand faiseur de tours'.]
(For description see other impression)
This print was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 26 August 1815 by Lacroix.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8223
