The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again

Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British
Subject Napoléon Bonaparte French

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Napoleon emerges from the flames of a huge fire burning atop a rock alongside serpents. A Cossack pokes the fire and the serpents at right, and a Dutchman uses a large pair of bellows.

The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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