TITLE: A happy dance for Europe CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 13490 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-85555 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Napoleon is pushed and dragged by two winged devils into the flames of Hell, while a fantastic serpent encircles his body and darts fangs towards his face. They are surrounded by clouds and a chain of littel dancing hobgoblins. Winged monstrosities hover over him, spitting flame, or menace him with gapinng jaws and glaring eyeballs. Napoleon is burlesqued and ragged, with a corvine profile, imitated from G. Cruikshank. MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1818 May 17. NOTES: Color engraving after drawing by Lewis Marks. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: France--Hist.; Cartoons; B.I.; Hell; Pub. NOS, 2007-02 REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b32083 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b32083 CONTROL #: 2002714484
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