Seizing the Italian relics

William Combe (1742–1823)?
The life of Napoleon: a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos by Doctor Syntax
London: printed for T. Tegg, W. Allason and J. Dick, Edinburgh, 1815
Harley-Mason.c.76, plate opposite p. 58

George Cruikshank’s characteristically uncomplimentary representation of Napoleon superintending the plunder of artwork from Italy illustrated a verse ‘Life’ of the Emperor written between his exile to Elba in 1814 and the Waterloo campaign of the following year.

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