print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.3420
- Title
- Object: The Dreadful Miseries of the French Army Enbivouac, Surprised by the Russian Cossacks
- Description
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Retreat of the French armies from Russia: starving French soldiers with a few women, huddled around a fire in a snow-covered landscape, one to right stretched exhausted on his face, one lying dead near a gun barrel to left, one crouched near a dead horse behind him and a party of cossacks galloping out of trees to attack them in the background to left; one of a set. 1813
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1813
- Dimensions
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Height: 288 millimetres (image)
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Height: 345 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 452 millimetres (image)
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Width: 486 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set: 1917,1208.3419-3422.
Not in Abbey
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Napoleon's Retreat from Russia 1812
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.3420