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A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

Napoléon Bonaparte|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date
July 28, 1815
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (24.8 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 13/16 in. (26 × 37.7 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.1603
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena|British, London 1757–1827 London|British, active 1794–1829

Subjects and terms

  • Satire
  • Napoleon I
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dogs
  • Politics

The Met object ID 392790. 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.