drawing
- Museum number
- 1989,0930.133
- Description
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The Imperial Guard burning the flags, design for a medal from Napoleon's 'Histoire Métallique', 1809-13; two soldiers standing and two kneeling down by a fire, circular
Pen and brown ink, over graphite
- Production date
- 1809 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 millimetres
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Width: 160 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For the medal see Trésor Numismatique, 62.
Published Antony Griffiths, The Design and Production of Napoleon's Histoire Métallique, The Medal, No.16, Spring 1990.
Antony Griffiths, Drawings for Napoleonic Medals, in Designs on Posterity, ed. Mark Jones, 1994.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1991, BM, Recent Acquisitions
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1989,0930.133
