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Lot # 1705: Marvelous Collection Hand-Watercolored Military Prints and Engravings including Napoleon (124)

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Item was in Auction "Winter 2006 Catalog",
which ran from 11/11/2006 12:00 AM to
12/15/2006 9:00 PM



Fantastic presentatiion of 9 groupings (124 in-all) of hand colored prints and engravings during the Great Wars of the early 19th Century including Napoleon. Follows is a nutshell description of each grouping: 1) Thirty one French engravings of Warriors on their mounts by Chez Martinet 7 x10”. 2) EX 19 x 11” watercolor print of General LaSalle by V. Huen. 3) Group of 8 original hand colored prints depicting the life, glory and death of Napoleon, in small format 14 x4”, EX. 4) Set of six color engravings depicting Russian Sharpshooters, Fusiliers, Dragons, Currassiers and Cossacks, all in EX measuring 9 1/2 x 14”. 5) Large grouping of 32 splendid hand-colored 5 x 8” French restoration plates, drawn and engraved by Canu (Paris 1816-25). 6). Major lot of 39 hand-colored images of Allied troops from second restoration published by Chez Genty, Paris (1816) EX, 8 1/2 x11”. 7). Two gorgeous hand-colored original prints depicting Veterans of the Armee of Italy and Napoleon with a line of Grenadiers, EX 9 1/2 x 12”. 8). Four color prints published in London in 1815 by J.Jenkins depicting four British views of the Campaign in Spain 1808-13, EX 11 x 14”. 9) Large 11 x 17” well known, poster like watercolor caricature of Napoleon as a Monster, published in England in 1814. Fantastic original color print collection!

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