A large Cossack grins broadly and drops his oversized fur trimmed cap over tiny Napoleon. This comical encounter is situated on a hill top. Located at the base of a mountain range, the town of Leipzig frames the distant horizon. The middle distance of the sheet is occupied by Russian soldiers who march across the large plain separated from the town by a wide channel. Although the Russian army is credited with defeating the French imperial troops, here the Russian is caricatured as a grinning barbarian; the hair on his face and head is wild and he carries a spear in addition to his guns and his sword.
Notes:
Published by Thomas Tegg, 1813-11-10. British Museum, BM 12097. For a related image, see George Cruikshank's caricature 'Snuffing out Boney,' Broadley E811.
Caption: London Pubd Nover 10th 1813 by Thos Tegg III Cheapside. Price One Shilling Colored
Dialogue: Cossack: "I'll Extinguish Your little French--Farthing--Rush light--Master Bony."
Dialogue: Napoleon: "!Death and Fury!--how I burn with Rage--those "Frightful" Contempable Cossacks has Clouded all my hopes."
"The Cossack extinguisher"
(1813).
Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232136/
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