Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved Size:M: 75 x 50cm the body of the harlot

the body of the harlot is surrounded by mourners

Also with figures looking at the vista

with title on a ribbon in the sky

View of Clifford's Inn and judges' chambers

One of a set of four plates from The Four Stages of Cruelty

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved Size:M: 75 x 50cm the body of the harlotNapoleon on a plate ready to be carved, 1814. A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte, who appears, skewered like a fowl, on a plate, bearing the City arms, alongside which lies a sword inscribed Blucher's carving Knife. This is a reference to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, a Prussian who defeated the French and captured 18,000 prisoners before entering Paris, aged 71. A man possibly John Bull, the personification of England frolics in a frothing