ANONYMOUSNa Poleone Bonaparte Mummia. (Milano, Raccolta Bertarelli) n.d. (c.1799)

Plate: 244 x 352mm; Sheet: 251 x 354mm; hand-coloured etching; some staining

Very rare Italian caricature on Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt. André Dutertre and Muhammad Ali of Egypt discovering an antique Egyptian mummy with the head of Napoleon.

Broadley F 40; Not in BM Satires, Arenenberg

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