A satire on Napoleon's Russian campaign. A large hound with the head of Napoleon in his bicorne hat with a feather colored red, white and blue, flees in terror towards the right, pursued by a pack of charging bears (Russia). The handle of a kettle with the words "Moskow tin-kettle etched in its side is tied to the hound's tail, its contents spilling out -- Famine, Oppression, Frost, Mortality, Destruction, Death, Horror, Moskow annihilation. The collar around his next reads "From Moskow" and the chain drags along on the ground. In the distance a city in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 191., "Price one shilling coloured."--Etched in image., and No. 71 in a volume letter on spine: Napoleonic caricatures.
Publisher:
Pudb. Marh. 7th 1813 by Thos. Tegg. 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Russia.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, and Campaigns
