In this very simple satire, Napoleon is portrayed as an organ grinder. Napoleon wears a long gray coat and black hat. An organ is slung over his left shoulder. He holds it in front of his body while turning the crank with his right hand.
Notes:
This image is not titled, signed, or dated.
Dialogue: Napoleon: "Es konnt' ja nicht immer so bleiben."
"'Es konnt' ja nicht immer so bleiben.'"
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Napoleonic Satires.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232193/
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