Anon
Das Neue Elba
Germany ca. 1815
Engraving
180 x 200 m
Trimmed within platemark
£160
Four German officers stand discussing while looking at displays in a Zoological Museum. Before them are four cages, the one in the centre is home to Napoleon, who is reclining over a globe, his clawed hands tearing into the surface. Lettering below his cage reads ; Malmais.on. Either side cages hold a leopard pawing over a carcass, and a hyena tearing an animal apart. Above him is a smaller cage housing a monkey who has in his hand (Napoleon’s) Crown. Below the main title are two columns ov verse starting ; Hier stille sich die Blutbeiger. and ending; Er heist – konnt Ihr’s errathem ?
