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Title: Little Boney Gone to Pot
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Thomas Tegg, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1814
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Caricature of Napoleon, in exile on the Isola d'Elba, seated on a chamber pot (inscribed the "Imperial Throne"), encouraged by a demon to take his own life.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 328; Douglas 706; Cohn 1322; British Museum 12261
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "G. Cruikshank fect." at l.l.; "Pubd May 12th 1814 by / Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside" at l.r.; "331" at u.r.; collector's stamp in black ink at l.r.c.; Verso, Vogler's stamp in black ink at l.r.
Type: image
Format: Print Etching with hand coloring
Form/Genre: Print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8w1009gt
1989.21.205
Subject: Caricatures; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; exiles; demons

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