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Napoleon addresses a crowd below at left. Napoleon II stands beside him to his right, looking down at the audience in an officer's uniform. Napoleons words radiate around him in clouds.
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Title: The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris
Artist:
Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Publisher:
Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
Subject:
Napoléon Bonaparte (French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena)
Subject:
Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt (French, Paris 1811–1832 Vienna)
Date: December 4, 1813
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 11/16 in. (24.5 × 34.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 14 13/16 in. (26.2 × 37.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number: 59.533.1527
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