Genre: Pencil works / Subject Heading: Hangings (Executions) / Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:: [1813]
Call Number:: Drawings R79 no. 22 Box D305
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The arms of two gibbets extend symmetrically, high above a bonfire; between them is an equally high post supporting a board on which the title is etched. From one (right) dangles a realistic effigy of Napoleon (scarcely caricatured) in cocked hat, uni...
Description:: Title from ink annotation, centered at the top of the sheet within the design.
Subject (Name):: Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):: Hangings (Executions), Gallows, and Bonfires
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of two celebrated enemies of Old England & their dying speeches, Nov. 5th, 1813 [art orignal].