Identification title(s): napoleon as a false phoenix, 1813. The mock phoenix!!! or a vain attempt to rise again (title on object). Object type: print cartoon object number: rp-p-1980-143. Catalog reference: fmh 5930, atlas van stolk 6273. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: rectangular stamp with frame and text stamped in blue 'collection mr. Dr. K. J. Frederiks', within the frame in handwriting in blue ballpoint pen '[curl] 74'. (not in lugt), collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2760; collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228. Description: cartoon of napoleon after being expelled from the netherlands by the russian cossacks, 1813. Napoleon tries in vain to rise like a phoenix from the flames above an oven stoked by the dutchman and the russian cossack. There are all kinds of devils and monsters in the smoke of the flames, snakes crawl out of the oven, napoleon's imperial crown is also on fire. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: thomas rowlandson, publisher: rudolph ackermann (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: london. Dated: 10-dec-1813. Physical characteristics: etching, hand-colored. Material: paper technique: etching / hand coloring. Dimensions: plate edge: h 249 mm × w 349 mm. Subject: what: fabulous animals ~ birds: phoenix, liberation of the netherlands (1813), cossacks in the netherlands (1813). When: 1813 - 1813. Who: napoleon i bonaparte. Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1980. Date: 10 December 1813.
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