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Napoleon pulls a dog in a jar through the marsh
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Napoleon pulls a dog in a jar through the marsh

Hermanus Fock · 1813 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Napoleon, with a sock on his head, pulls a dog that sits in a jar through the marsh. French soldiers help him. In the background the French troops are being defeated by the Cossacks, the fireworks, and a cemetery portal with a skeleton of a French soldier. Under the text: French lot, drawn in the Moscow Marsh Lottery anno 1812 and following!

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineNapoleon trekt een hond in een bokaal door het moeras. 1813. Hermanus Fock. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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