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A' bas le manteau, or the murmur of the French Grand Army in their retreat: Bonaparte after being obliged by his Soldiers to leave the Carriage in which he was Travelling, was further compelled to throw off his Cloak, that he might himself feel a little of their misery

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Year:
1813
Contributor:
Atkinson, James, 1780-1852 (artist)
Dubourg, Matthew, active 1786-1838 (engraver)
Orme, Edward, 1775-1848 (publisher)
Genre:
aquatints (prints)
Subject:
Napoleon > 1769-1821 > I, Emperor of the French
France. Armée
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Campaigns > Russia
Local ID:
R 1813-1814 Russia
Extent:
1 aquatint; 35.6 x 51.1 cm.

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Abstract:
12th of 3 series of prints and 2 separate prints bound together; 3rd of 7 colored aquatints by Dubourg, after Atkinson; ragged French troops jeering at Napoleon and staff, mounted, in center of winter landscape.
Notes:
Folio; bound in 3/4 green morocco stamped gold "Prints. Russian Campaign" and marble boards; worn, some plates foxed.
London, Francis Edwards, 1951.

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Atkinson, James, "A' bas le manteau, or the murmur of the French Grand Army in their retreat: Bonaparte after being obliged by his Soldiers to leave the Carriage in which he was Travelling, was further compelled to throw off his Cloak, that he might himself feel a little of their misery " (1813). 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:246558/

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