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Triumph des jahres 1813. Den Deutschen zum neuen Jahr

Description

Abstract:
Broadley: based on an engraving by Lehmann after a portrait by H. A. Dähling (1807). Referred to as the 'corpse-head.' Print divided into two parts
Notes:
Broadley: 'the most widely known of all the caricatures directed against Napoleon...Voltz's effort may be regarded as the artistic first-fruits of the crushing defeat of Napoleon at [Leipzig] on October 19, 1813.'
Text: Wahre Abbildung des Eroberers. Der Hut ist Preussens Adler, welcher mit seinen Krallen den Grossen gepackt hat und ihn nicht mehr loslässt. Das Gesicht bilden einige Leichen von denen Hunderttausenden, welche seine Ruhmsucht opferte. Der Kragen ist der grosse Blutstrom, welcher für seinen Ehrgeiz so lange fliessen musste. Der Rock ist ein Stück der Landcharte des aufgelössten Rheinbundes. An allen darauf zu lesenden Orten verlehr er Schlachten. Das rothe Bändchen bedürfte des erklärenden Ortes wol nicht mehr. Der grosse Ehrenlegionsorden ist ein Spinnengewebe, dessen Fäden über den ganzen Rheinbund ausgespannt waren; allein in der Epaulette ist die mächtige Gotteshand ausgestreckt, welche das Gewebe zerreisst, womit Deutschland umgarnt war und die Kreuzspinne vernichtet, die da ihren Sitz hatte, wo ein Herz seyn sollte! -- [The Hat is the Prussian Eagle which has seized the great man in its claws and will not let go. The Face represents a few of the bodies of the 100,000 men which his lust for glory sacrificed. The Collar is the great stream of blood so long outpoured for his ambition. The Coat is a portion of the map of the dissolved Confederation of the Rhine. At all the places indicated he lost a battle. The red line is no longer necessary by way of explanation. The Spider of the Legion of Honour is a spider's web whose threads embraced the whole Rhenish Confederation, but in the epaulet is the Mighty Hand of God stretched out to tear asunder the insect which held the position which ought to have been occupied by the heart.]

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No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

"Triumph des jahres 1813. Den Deutschen zum neuen Jahr" (1814). 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:232324/

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