Cartoon on Napoleon's exile to Elba, 1814, Wijnand Esser (attributed to), 1814 - 1815 drawing Cartoon on Napoleon's exile to Elba, May 1814. Napoleon is fascinated by the devil. The devil is in a stack of boxes. A woman keeps Napoleon a bottle under the nose while she is thinning him with a rod, she wears a box with a marmot. The car is drawn by the four brothers of Napoleon and preceded by General Ney, dressed in rags. In the front, a boar runs with emperor crown and scepter. Behind the car four fascinated French generals. Walk in the foreground by car: rats, a snake, path, dragon and lizard.


Cartoon on Napoleon's exile to Elba, 1814, Wijnand Esser (attributed to), 1814 - 1815 drawing Cartoon on Napoleon's exile to Elba, May 1814. Napoleon is fascinated by the devil. The devil is in a stack of boxes. A woman keeps Napoleon a bottle under the nose while she is thinning him with a rod, she wears a box with a marmot. The car is drawn by the four brothers of Napoleon and preceded by General Ney, dressed in rags. In the front, a boar runs with emperor crown and scepter. Behind the car four fascinated French generals. Walk in the foreground by car: rats, a snake, path, dragon and lizard. Standing on a hill in the background four pennies of Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands and Great Britain, above them the fame blows on her trumpet. Netherlands paper brush Devil (S) and Demons. Hunger; 'Fama', 'Good fame', 'Chiara fame' (Ripa)


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