Flight of Napoleon, 1815

Political caricature on the flight of Napoleon after the French defeat in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Centrally the Dutch Maiden with the stab of Napoleon on the spear of freedom. On the left Napoleon rides the Devil and Death to the moon. In the front left an astrologer watches this spectacle through a telescope, next to him a farmer and an accountant calculating the costs of Napoleon's Hundred Days. In the front right the belongings left by Napoleon at the Castle of Laeken, among them a Jewish buyer or appraiser. On the right rear chaos in the French parliament, on the left rear the armies and commanders of the allies. With several inscriptions in the image, in the caption the legend 1-13.