L' Homme Rouge Arrëte les Derniers Efforts du Tyran, et la Mort lui Montre le Seul Chemin Ouvert pour Sortir de son Exil

Hand-colored engraving. 'Napoleon rides a wooden horse on a desert island (St Helena). He is dressed in a harlequin costume, a hangman's noose around his neck and a snake around his waist. He is chained to a monkey (the Count de Las Cases) who writes his memoirs. The French flag and his emblem of the imperial eagle lie on the ground, while he holds a flag with bees, ironically symbolic of immortality and resurrection. He tries to fire a cannon but the Devil ("l'homme rouge") extinguishes the flame by urinating on it. In the sky appear the coats-of-arms of his enemies: Prussia, Britain, Austria, Spain and the Bourbon kings of France. Death appears in a boat on the sea as the only solution to his exile' -- British Museum Hand-colored engraving. 'Napoleon rides a wooden horse on a desert island (St Helena). He is dressed in a harlequin costume, a hangman's noose around his neck and a snake around his waist. He is chained to a monkey (the Count de Las Cases) who writes his memoirs. The French flag and his emblem of the imperial eagle lie on the ground, while he holds a flag with bees, ironically symbolic of immortality and resurrection. He tries to fire a cannon but the Devil ("l'homme rouge") extinguishes the flame by urinating on it. In the sky appear the coats-of-arms of his enemies: Prussia, Britain, Austria, Spain and the Bourbon kings of France. Death appears in a boat on the sea as the only solution to his exile' -- British Museum