Du haut en bas... ou les causes et les effets.

Hand-colored etching. 'Napoleon (not caricatured), precariously poised on stilts, takes an immense stride from 'Madrid', represented by a cluster of Gothic pinnacles, to 'Moscow', represented by the onion domes of the Kremlin. His stilts rest only on the spikes which project from pinnacles and domes. The stilts are breaking and he is about to fall, his arms are flung wide, and he has dropped his sceptre and orb: he looks downwards and his hat is falling. Madrid and Moscow are divided by the ornamental water or canal leading from the water-front of 'Fontainebleau', which is in the background, symmetrically placed between and behind the two cities; the character of the building is correctly but not accurately given. Green hills lie between Madrid and Fontainebleau, snow-covered mountains between the palace and Moscow' -- British Museum Hand-colored etching. 'Napoleon (not caricatured), precariously poised on stilts, takes an immense stride from 'Madrid', represented by a cluster of Gothic pinnacles, to 'Moscow', represented by the onion domes of the Kremlin. His stilts rest only on the spikes which project from pinnacles and domes. The stilts are breaking and he is about to fall, his arms are flung wide, and he has dropped his sceptre and orb: he looks downwards and his hat is falling. Madrid and Moscow are divided by the ornamental water or canal leading from the water-front of 'Fontainebleau', which is in the background, symmetrically placed between and behind the two cities; the character of the building is correctly but not accurately given. Green hills lie between Madrid and Fontainebleau, snow-covered mountains between the palace and Moscow' -- British Museum Summer 1814