The Two Kings of Terror
Thomas Rowlandson|Napoléon Bonaparte|Rudolph Ackermann, London
November 1813 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints
Heading to a printed broadside, "Copy of the Transparency Exhibited at Ackermann's Repository of Arts, During the Illuminations of the 5th and 6th of November 1813, in honor of the splendid victories obtained by the Allies over the Armies of France, at Leipsic and its environs." A skeleton, Death, is seated on a cannon at left, and Napoleon is seated on a drum at right. Behind them is a symbolic representation of the "Battle of the Nations."
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson|Napoléon Bonaparte|Rudolph Ackermann, London
- Date
- November 1813
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959