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"The journey of a modern hero, to the island of Elba" Print shows Napoleon I seated backwards on a donkey on the road "to Elba" from Fontainebleau; he holds a broken sword in one hand and the donkey's tail in the other while two drummers follow him playing a farewell(?) march. Includes twelve lines of verse. Original source 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 18.9 x 22.7 cm. (sheet) The inscription reads as follows:
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- Farewell my brave soldiers, my eagles adieu;
- Stung with my ambition, o'er the world ye flew:
- But deeds of disaster so sad to rehearse
- I have lived--fatal truth for to know the reverse.
- From Moscow to Lipsic; the case it is clear
- I was sent back to France with a flea in my ear.
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- A lesson to mortals regarding my fall:
- He grasps at a shadow, by grasping at all.
- My course it is finish'd my race it is run,
- My career it is ended just where it begun.
- The Empire of France no more it is mine.
- Because I can't keep it I freely resign.
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May 1814 |
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Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: PC 2 - Journey of a modern hero ... (A size) [P&P] |
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Pub'd by J. Phillips, No. 32 Charles Street Hampstead road (London) |
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