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.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
25/207
Imprint
London: Printed for the proprietor, by Whittingham and Rowland, 1816
Physical Description
28 p., etched frontis.: illus.; 177 mm.
General Note
The etched frontispiece depicts the 'Colossal Statue Of Napoleon From the Column in the place Vendome Paris Taken down by the Allies in 1814.' The London Museum was one of the names of an exhibition hall on Piccadilly in an Egyptian style which was built for William Bullock in 1812 (also known as London Museum, Egyptian Hall or Museum, or Bullock's Museum).
References
See Sir John Soane's Miuseum Library (ref. no. 4359)
Provenance
Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (4) in vol. VI of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
Binding Note
In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / VI'.