About this image...

Image Title: A Return From An Invasion, Or, Napoleon At A Nonplus, 1803

Creator: Nixon, John, -1818, artist

Date: 1803.

Summary: Print shows Napoleon I coming ashore at Calais, France, defeated at every turn, without men and ships, to face the ridicule of fisherwomen, the governor, a French soldier, and an English sailor who says, "Take one kick at parting & thank your own insignificance the English suffer'd you to return to France alive."

Related Names: Asperne, James

Subjects: City & town life--France--Calais--1800-1810
Despair--1800-1810
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821

Original Media: Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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