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Title
Boney's trial, sentence, and dying speech, or Europe's injuries revenged.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00109
Identifier
ark:/88435/8910k2682
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1815/07/28.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1815
Extent
1 item ; sheet 24.5 x 35.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 294
Broadley no. 119
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Napoleon is arraigned, as a criminal at the bar, before the Court of Europe and a crowded tribunal. The seat of chief judge is occupied by Prince Blucher, and the assembled potentates are seated on the bench, wearing their recovered crowns... The occupants of the court and the lawyers are regarding the criminal under sentence with abhorrence. A posse of tipstaves are drawn up below the prisoner's bar, and Napoleon, who is trying to move the compassion of his hearers by hypocritical humility, has a friend at his back, who is ready to seize his bond - the Black Fiend is his unseen attendant prompter in person.
Depiction: Old Blucher, clad in his field- marshal's uniform, with the addition of a judge's wig, is standing up, and, with emphatic gentures, is pointing to the act of accusation set forth at length on a screen in the court..... The inflexible judge is hurling forth his condemnation: "fallen to my lot to pronounce sentence of death on you. You are to be hung by the neck for one hour till you are dead, dead, dead, and your body to be chained to a millstone and sunk in the sea at Torbay." The fallen Emperor... is interceding for a respite: "Oh, cruel Blucher! magnanimous Emperors, Kings and Princes, intercede for me and spare my life, and give me time to atone for all my sings. My son, Napoleon the Second, will reward you for mercy shown me!"
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Subject
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821—Trials, litigation, etc—Caricatures and cartoons
Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819—Caricatures and cartoons
France—Kings and rulers—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
Caricature

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File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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