Entrée du Général Buonaparte dans la ville de Basle le 24 novembre 1797 arrivant d'Italie pour se rendre au Congrés de Rastadt: a. Deux courriers du General. B. Les Chasseurs a cheval de la Compagnie franche qui étoient allé à sa rencontre jusqu’à une lieuë de la ville. C. Le Carosse de Mrs. Les Deputes de l’Etat qui avoient été à la frontiere du Canton pour le complimenter; ce Carosse étoit précé

Hand-colored aquatint by Mechel (after Ludwig Friedrich Kaiser?). 'General Buonaparte arrives in a carriage drawn by eight horses and preceded by two Messengers of the State on horseback, Deputies of the State in a carriage, Hunters on horseback of the Free Company and two messengers of the General; the procession winds from the foreground to the left and into the town of Basel in the midground, with a crowd of onlookers lining the procession to the left; to the right is a hill on which are three canons, two being fired.' -- British Museum Hand-colored aquatint by Mechel (after Ludwig Friedrich Kaiser?). 'General Buonaparte arrives in a carriage drawn by eight horses and preceded by two Messengers of the State on horseback, Deputies of the State in a carriage, Hunters on horseback of the Free Company and two messengers of the General; the procession winds from the foreground to the left and into the town of Basel in the midground, with a crowd of onlookers lining the procession to the left; to the right is a hill on which are three canons, two being fired.' -- British Museum Oblong medium folio. Wuppertal, Schimidt & Green, 2015 Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)