- Title Information
- Title
- Bernadotte
- Name
- Name Part
- Heath, William
- Name Part:
Date
- 1795-1840
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- printmaker
- Name
- Name Part
- Ackermann and Co.
- Name Part:
Date
- c.1800-c.1899
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- publisher
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Text
- London, GBR
- Date Created
- 1814
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 print; 20.5 x 32 cm
- Abstract
- British Museum catalogue: Bernadotte rides a galloping and snorting charger, without reins or saddle, seated on a leopard's skin; the horse tramples on a serpentine monster. He holds shield and spear, and looks to the right. On his breast is a star composed of an eagle, flags, and spears. His shield is divided into quarters by a cross centred by a sun; in the quarters are an Austrian and a Prussian eagle, a bear, and a lion. His thigh is decorated with nude figures...
- Note
- Published March 4th 1814 by R Akermann Strand British Museum catalogue: One of three prints advertised by Ackermann as 'Three Allegorical Caricatures, highly finished -- Alexander, Napoleon and Bernadotte.'
- Note:
Text
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- Round the head is a wreath of Laurel, which alludes to the brilliant Victories gain'd. over the scourge of the World. the Epaulette head of a lion, the Star is formed Of the Trophies taken from the Tyrant, the Thigh is a figure of Liberty holding in Chains the Fiend Slavery, the Shield the Swedish Cross with the Sun Shining On the allies who are represented on the Shield, the Horse is in the act of Trampling on a Serpent alluding the Fallen State of Buonaparte.
- Note:
Text
(displayLabel="Caption", lang="English")
- Drawn & Etchd by W Heath
- Note:
Text
(displayLabel="Caption", lang="English")
- Pub March 4th 1814 by R Akermann Strand
- Subject
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Napoleon
- Name Part:
Terms of Address
- I, Emperor of the French
- Name Part:
Date
- 1769-1821
- Topic
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Related Item:
Host
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- Title Information
- Title
- Napoleonic Satires
- Identifier:
COLID
- 2
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="ASKB Call No.:")
- SwH 1814 sf-1
- Location
- Physical Location
- John Hay Library
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1133370069499380
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.