12 (of 22) hand-colored, copper-engraved plates depicting officers from the Napoleonic Wars (3 framed). Framed portraits are those of Prince Swartzenburg, Field Marshall von Blucher, and Sir Thomas Picton. Engravings from the popular yet historically detailed treatment of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolution which preceded it. A striking assemblage of hand-colored copperplates from William Nicholson's The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution, depicting the generals and kings commanding the forces, invariably on horseback with swords drawn, including Napoleon Bonaparte himself, the Duke of York, Sire Eyre Coote, the Emperor of Austria, and others.
12 (of 22) hand-colored, copper-engraved plates depicting officers from the Napoleonic Wars (3 framed). Framed portraits are those of Prince Swartzenburg, Field Marshall von Blucher, and Sir Thomas Picton. Engravings from the popular yet historically detailed treatment of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolution which preceded it. A striking assemblage of hand-colored copperplates from William Nicholson's The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution, depicting the generals and kings commanding the forces, invariably on horseback with swords drawn, including Napoleon Bonaparte himself, the Duke of York, Sire Eyre Coote, the Emperor of Austria, and others.
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