print
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.137
- Title
- Object: Bonaparte, Dans la Séance extraordinaire
- Description
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Dissolution of the Council of Elders; protected by two soldiers , Bonaparte ordering the army to clear the hall; the president of the Council ringing a bell on a platform behind.
Stipple engraving, hand-coloured
- Production date
- 1800 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 345 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Dissolution of the Council of Elders 10 November 1799
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- The BM bought 45 lots at the 1925 sale of the Lindsay library collection of French revolutionary and Napoleonic era prints through Agnew's for a total of £92 17s (1925,0615.131 to 466). The collection had been formed by the vendor's father, the 26th Earl. The BM acquired many other prints from the same collection at other times.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0615.137