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A Hard Passage, or Boney Playing Base on the Continent

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Hard Passage, or Boney Playing Base on the Continent

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson|G. Sauley [Farnham]|Napoléon Bonaparte

Date
September 24, 1808
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 7/16 in. (26.3 × 36.7 cm) Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (24.7 × 35 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.1180
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

British, active 1794–1829|British, London 1757–1827 London|British, active 1805–8|French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Musical Instruments
  • Bears
  • Satire
  • Napoleon I
  • Politics

The Met object ID 744090. 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.