Inventarnummer
4201.151.2
Titel
[Anti-Napoleon Cartoons (five of) and Contemporary Plans of the Peninsular War battles]
Beschreibung
Collection of items relating to Napoleonic Wars, as follows :
Gazette Revolutionnaire for 8th Vendemiere, 1795;
Plan and elevation of 'The Famous French Raft', 1798;
Prints of 'La Lecon du dessin', French soldiers with hog', 'A Picturesque and Topographical View of the Plains of Waterloo', 'Coehorn', d.1702, and 'Revue du 1er Consul';
Engravings of Gen Sir R.S. Donkin, c.1830, Vauban c.1800, Gen S. Cotton 1833, 'Sir Sidney Smith Defending Acre', 'Death of Gen. Abercromby', 'Sapeur des Guardes Suisses', and Gen Dundas c.1805;
Plans of battles of Coruna 1809, Talavera 1809, Vimiero 1808, Rolica 1808, (four in one frame), Lines of Lisbon and map of Spain and Portugal by Baily of Cornhill;
Plan of Waterloo, 1816;
Four postcards of Napoleon's death, funeral carriage and tomb, and statue of Paolina Bonaparte;
Two painted anti-Napoleon cartoons entitled 'Boney in possession of the Millstone' and 'The Governor of Europe stopped in his Career';
Painted cartoons entitled 'Spanish Lick-rish', La Marchande de Coco';
Printed cartoon entitled 'The Wet Party, or The Bogs of Flanders - a New Song';
Ten painted scenes of naval battle on cloth, dated 1672.
Format
- Height: cartoons 445 mm
- Width: cartoons 335 mm
- Height: Frame 1025 mm
- Width: Frame 220 mm
- Width: plans 130 mm
- Height: plans 200 mm