A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper

Thomas Rowlandson|John Nixon|James Asperne|Napoléon Bonaparte

Date
April 20, 1814
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 11/16 in. (24.5 × 34.7 cm) Sheet: 10 1/16 × 14 3/8 in. (25.5 × 36.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.1561
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|British, London bap. 1755–1818 Ryde, Isle of Wight|British, 1757–1820|French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena

Subjects and terms

  • Satire
  • Napoleon I
  • Men
  • Politics

The Met object ID 392785. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.