Satirical print showing Napoleon after the battle of Maloyaroslavets (24 October 1812) during his Russian campaign (‘The Patriotic War’ in Russian parlance). He is vomiting fragments of plans and charts as well as a shattered anchor. In his hand he holds a large medicine bottle of emetic labelled in Russian: ‘Emetic. Pour Mr Napoleon. Heartfelt thank you, if only to take it more often. By order of the Russian army, from the pharmacy near Maly Yaroslavets’.
Alternative Title:
ПРОЩАЙ БРАТ, КЛАНЯЙСЯ СВОИМ, ДА НЕ ЗАБЫВАЙ НАШИХ”. НАПОЛЕОН ПОСЛЕ СРАЖЕНИЯ ПОД МАЛОЯРОСЛАВЦЕМ
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker from dealer's description., and Date of publication inferred from subject of print; the Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Russia.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Vomiting, and Medicines
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue. and Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London