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Description of the series of pictures, painted by order of the late Emperor of France, under his own inspection, to commemorate the principal actions of his life. Also original portraits, busts in marble, bronze and or-moulu, superb fire arms, services of gold plate, and other magnificent and costly effects of Napoleon Buonaparte; ... now exhibiting at the London Museum, Piccadilly.
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Description of the series of pictures, painted by order of the late Emperor of France, under his own inspection, to commemorate the principal actions of his life. Also original portraits, busts in marble, bronze and or-moulu, superb fire arms, services of gold plate, and other magnificent and costly effects of Napoleon Buonaparte; ... now exhibiting at the London Museum, Piccadilly.
London (Place), printed for the proprietor, by Whittingham and Rowland,, 1816.
28 p., etch. frontis. ; 17.9 cm. (8º)
The plate is a representation of the 'Colossal Statue Of Napoleon From the Column in the place Vendome Paris Taken down by the Allies in 1814.' The history of William Bullock's London Museum or Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly is set out in The survey of London, vol. XXIX, pp. 266--270. Hooked on Books 9.7.
Copy Notes Bound last in a collection of pamphlets.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt double-rule spine, black spine-label, gilt-lettered 'Malden's King's College Chapel &c'. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 1s. 2d., 28 February 1832. (Archive 7/16/29 book binding, half russia). Later numbered '99' in a series of pamphlet volumes.
Reference Number 4359
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin; Bullock, William (fl.$1800--1828); Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Memorabilia, Catalogs; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Museums, relics, etc, Catalogs; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Portraits; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Miscellanea - Exhibitions; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Art patronage; London Museum; Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London
Description of the series of pictures, painted by order of the late Emperor of France, under his own inspection, to commemorate the principal actions of his life. Also original portraits, busts in marble, bronze and or-moulu, superb fire arms, services of gold plate, and other magnificent and costly effects of Napoleon Buonaparte; ... now exhibiting at the London Museum, Piccadilly.
London (Place), printed for the proprietor, by Whittingham and Rowland,, 1816.
28 p., etch. frontis. ; 17.9 cm. (8º)
The plate is a representation of the 'Colossal Statue Of Napoleon From the Column in the place Vendome Paris Taken down by the Allies in 1814.' The history of William Bullock's London Museum or Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly is set out in The survey of London, vol. XXIX, pp. 266--270. Hooked on Books 9.7.
Copy Notes Bound last in a collection of pamphlets.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt double-rule spine, black spine-label, gilt-lettered 'Malden's King's College Chapel &c'. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 1s. 2d., 28 February 1832. (Archive 7/16/29 book binding, half russia). Later numbered '99' in a series of pamphlet volumes.
Reference Number 4359
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin; Bullock, William (fl.$1800--1828); Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Memorabilia, Catalogs; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Museums, relics, etc, Catalogs; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Portraits; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Miscellanea - Exhibitions; Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769--1821) - Art patronage; London Museum; Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London