Accession number:
PML 140273.15
Published:
[Paris : s.n., 1822]
Description:
1 print : lithograph ; image: 326 x 406 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Date from La Combe.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left; lettered "Lith. de C. Motte" at lower right.
According to La Combe, this print was created for inclusion in Antoine-Vincent Arnault's "Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoléon", first published in 1822.
Comprises plate 24 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy closely trimmed at head and foot with loss of caption text; sheet folded down the center and mounted on bound stub.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows a scene from the Siége de Saint-Jean d'Acre, with Napoleon standing at center surrounded by advancing French soldiers and corpses.
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