The two kings of terror

This broadsheet celebrates the victory of Allied forces over Napoleon's French army. The sheet contains an image on the top half, and a descriptive advertisement for the image on the bottom half (see text field). Rowlandson's engraving features Napoleon seated on a drum (r.) face to face with a skeleton seated on a cannon (l.). The cannon is pointed directly at Napoleon. Both Napoleon and the skeleton assume the same pose, with elbow on knee and chin in hand. Behind them the allied army, represented by heraldic flags, trounces the French forces. This broadsheet celebrates the victory of Allied forces over Napoleon's French army. The sheet contains an image on the top half, and a descriptive advertisement for the image on the bottom half (see text field). Rowlandson's engraving features Napoleon seated on a drum (r.) face to face with a skeleton seated on a cannon (l.). The cannon is pointed directly at Napoleon. Both Napoleon and the skeleton assume the same pose, with elbow on knee and chin in hand. Behind them the allied army, represented by heraldic flags, trounces the French forces. Printed Signature: T. Rowlandson delt. Advertisement: "Copy/ of the/ Transparency/ exhibited at/ Ackermann's Repository of Arts/ During the Illuminations of the 5th and 6th of November, 1813,/ In Honor of the Splendid Victories Obtained by/ the Allies over the Armies of France/ at Leipsic and its Environs." "The Two Kings of Terror/ The Subject, representing the two Tyrants, viz. the Tyrant Bonaparte and the/ Tyrant Death, sitting together on the Field of Battle, in a manner which promises a more/ perfect intimacy immediately to ensue, is very entertaining. It is also very instructing to/ observe, that the former is now placed in a situation in which all Europe may see through/ him. The emblem, too, of the Circle of dazzling light from mere vapour, which is so soon/ extinguished, has a good moral effect; and as the Gas representing the dying flame, so does the/ Drum, on which he is seated, typify the hollow and noisy nature of the falling Usurper." "The above description of the subject appeared in the Sun of Saturday, the 6th of/ November. These pointed comments arose from the picture being transparent, and from a/ Circle , indicative of the strength and brotherly union of the Allies, which surmounted the/ same, composed of gas of brilliant brightness."