print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.170
- Title
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Object: La Retraite de la Renommee
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Object: Napoleon vue par Derriere
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Series: Zwei Spottbilder auf die Flucht Napoleons aus Russland
- Description
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Satirical print commenting on Napoleon's retreat from Russia; winter landscape with a sledge, apparently made from a coffin heading for Posen; Napoleon and his Mumeluke bodyguard Rustan are standing to right; one of his marshals is bargaining the fair with a Polish-jewish carter; to left, Madame Renommée, a personification of fame has fallen off a horse and broken her trumpet; first state before aquatint. 1813-4
Etching
- Production date
- 1813-1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 446 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For more information, see: Sabine and Ernst Schäffler (eds): 'So zerstieben getraeumte Weltreiche; Napoleon I in der deutschen Karikatur, hannover, 1995, pp.212-3
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1925,0615.170