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Le Miroir de la Vérité ou le tigre écrassé. French anonyme, hand-coloured etching, 1815.

Hand-coloured etching by an anonymous artist, printed in July 1815.

Description by British Museum (1866,0407.935): “Blücher (left) and Napoleon (right) support a heavy pier-glass in an upright position. Its solid base rests on the back of the prostrate Napoleon, from whose mouth issues a label: ‘Si je pouvais encore me sauver! . . . mais non c’est fini Nicolas est pris.’ The mirror, which towers above the head of its supporters, is framed by pillars, each surmounted by a fleur-de-lis. These also decorate the heavy superstructure which supports a trophy of two oval shields with the arms of Bourbon and Navarre, surmounted by a crown…, and four white flags. On the face of the mirror is a large Bourbon crown, and a lily plant. Blücher says: “Le Diable m’emporte s’il en réchappe.” Wellington responds: “Pour cette fois nous en répondons.”

Inscription under the plate: ‘Se vend chez Genty, rue St Jacques no.14’ and ‘Déposé au Bureau des Estampes’.

Size: 33.2 x 25.7 cm

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