The Divorce of the Empress Josephine

One of a pair of mezzotint engravings (from book) by John Sartain after Schopin, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1847 (now in the Wallace Collection); court ceremony of divorce on December 15, 1809. From 'The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art', edited by W.H. Bidwell, January-April 1852 (See also: The Morning of the 18th Brumaire). One of a pair of mezzotint engravings (from book) by John Sartain after Schopin, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1847 (now in the Wallace Collection); court ceremony of divorce on December 15, 1809. From 'The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art', edited by W.H. Bidwell, January-April 1852 (See also: The Morning of the 18th Brumaire). Oblong; margins trimmed; foxed. Hanover, N.H., Book & Print Shop, 1955.