print
- Museum number
- 2014,7007.3
- Title
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Object: Retour de L'Ile d'Elbe. 1815.
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Series: Cent jours de la vie d'un Grand Homme
- Description
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Plate 2: Napoleon in the centre, on a path in the countryside, raising his arm to greet troops faithful to him and cheering to right, watched by serried ranks of soldiers to left, presumablty sent to arrest him; a few civilian bystanders in ther foreground. 1833
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1833
- Dimensions
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Height: 106 millimetres (inner ruled border)
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Width: 203 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The series is described in the Bibliographie de la France entry for 21 décembre 1833, no. 774, as comprising six plates and an additional sheet with four portraits. Plate 1 is not included in the British Museum set.
The series commemorates the principal events during Napoleon's 'Hundred Days' period in 1815.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Napoleon's Return from Elba 1815
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Associated Event: Hundred Days 1815
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7007.3