- Title Information
- Title
- barbarous & inhuman conduct of Bonaparte, in sacrificing his sick & wounded by burning the Bridge over the Beresina at Stoudenza
- Subtitle
- Humanitiy Shudders on contemplating the numerous atrocities committed by this Scourge of the human race, no law, either moral or divine, can make an impression of compassion on this ferocious Monster - solely to save his own person, he burnt the bridge at Stoudenza, while yet a part of his Army were passing; & so compeatly was he routed at this Spot, that he lost in drown'd killed, & taken Prisoners upwards of 20,000 Men to the Army commanded by the brave General, Count Wittgenstien, on the 4 Decr. 1812
- Non Sort
- The
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wright, John Massey
- Name Part:
Date
- 1777-1866
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- artist
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hassell, John
- Name Part:
Date
- 1767-1825
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- engraver
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- enk
- Place Term:
Text
- London
- Publisher
- Hassell & Co.
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1813-1814
- Date Issued:
Start
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1813
- Date Issued:
End
(encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1814
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 aquatint; 41.6 x 57.6 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- 7th of 3 series of prints and 2 separate prints bound together; 2nd of 4 colored aquatints by Hassell 'from a painting by J.M. Wright, Esqr. taken from authentic information &. documents'. 'Napoleon crossing the Berezina during the retreat from Russia; with the French emperor on horseback to left, turning back as he crosses a wooden bridge and ordering his men to burn it in the centre, heedless of the remainder of his army which is following him, with men in the water, two clambering onto the bridge to left and women among the followers including one who falls back wounded in a man's arms, to right' -- British Museum
- Note
- Folio; bound in 3/4 green morocco stamped gold "Prints. Russian Campaign" and marble boards; worn, some plates foxed.
- Note:
provenance
- London, Francis Edwards, 1951.
- Subject
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Napoleon
- Name Part:
Date
- 1769-1821
- Name Part:
Terms of Address
- I, Emperor of the French
- Subject
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- France. Armée
- Subject
- Topic
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
- Topic
- Campaigns
- Geographic
- Russia
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 13
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/askb
- Related Item:
series
- Title Information
- Title
- Russian Campaign of 1812
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="ASK Brown Call No.")
- R 1813-1814 Russia
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1318952756156251
- Genre (aat)
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- aquatints (prints)
- 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.