Addressed by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte, 1806?

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Title: Addressed by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte, 1806?
Creator: Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837
Abstract: Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of four numbered stanzas of four lines each. Possibly composed by Queen Hortense of Holland and addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte
Description: In French.
Title from manuscript note in English at bottom of sheet.
Possibly from 1806, the year that Hortense became Queen of Holland and the year of death for Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found.
Formerly laid in at page 196 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Housed in mylar sleeve matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 21 x 16 cm item ;
Language: French
English

Genre: Poems
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic): French poetry
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
French poetry > 19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

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Citation: Queen Hortense, Addressed by the Queen of Holland to Buonaparte. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.