JENKINS, James.

The ex-emperor in a bottle.

London, James Jenkins, 25 August 1815. 275 x 325 mm, hand-coloured engraving; very slightly dust-soiled. A satirical group portrait depicting Napoleon (with his hand thrust in his waistcoat, as in Isabey’s Malmaison painting, but with no hat or sword) trapped inside a corked fly-bottle. To his right stand the allied sovereigns, most prominently the Prince Regent, who holds up a tablet inscribed ‘Martial Achievements’, and Louis XVIII who kneels in profile in the foreground. To his left stand the highly decorated allied generals, Wellington, Platoff, Blücher, and Schwarzenberg.It was issued by Jenkin’s as an advertisement, or prospectus, to ‘The martial achievements of Great Britain & her allies, a splendid graphical work, illustrative of the most renowned battles & sieges in which those powers have been engaged during the late wars’.Abbey, Life 366; BM, Catalogue of political and personal satires 12594.

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