Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

"On saying these words, he laid hold of me by the middle of the back, and holding me as a man holds a lantern, I had leisure to contemplate for some minutes, this imposing wonder."

Image not available
Thomas Dighton
active 19th centuryury

"On saying these words, he laid hold of me by the middle of the back, and holding me as a man holds a lantern, I had leisure to contemplate for some minutes, this imposing wonder."

Published

[London] : Printed by C. Hullmandel, [1827]

lithograph
image: 190 x 110 mm; sheet: 235 x 154 mm
Peel 2005
Notes
Title from caption.
Frontispiece plate detached from Zongo-Tee-Foh-Tchi [pseudonym], Napoleon in the other world : a narrative written by himself: and found near his tomb in the island of St. Helena. London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
Printed below image: Designed and drawn on stone by T. Dighton. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A giant angel holds a diminutive Napoleon suspended over an enormous city.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer.
Classification
Department