Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St Helena Polar Tenth Edition

Tenth Edition

St Mary Overie/Southwark Cathedral) and looks across the Thames towards the Tower of London

His customary composition features a foreground

Tallies with No 694 in the Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings of J

which corresponds with the manuscript note on the rear with estimates a date of c

Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St Helena Polar Tenth EditionEtching and aquatint 'engraved by R. B. Peake from a sketch taken on the Island.' Published by J. M. Richardson 23 Cornhill as a frontispiece to A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLAND OF ST HELENA WITH SOME PARTICULARS RESPECTING the ARRIVAL and Detention of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE by Capt. John Barnes Town Major, and Civil and Military Surveyor of the Company's Service on the Island. 1817. Dimensions: 168mm x 106mm. In generally good condition. The paper is stained,