Last Days Of Napoleon At St Helena by Vela Antique 1894 Picture Print PP#NA

Description: Last Days Of Napoleon At St Helena by Vincenzo Vela 1894 Antique Print A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 8" x 10" or 20cm x 25cm Actual page including border and text is approx 10.5" x 12.75" or 26.5cm x 32.5cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. 1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a tube or Large Letter size box for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) LAST DAYS OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA (By VELA), VERSAILLES. —It is not merely the dying Napoleon whom we here behold—it is the Exile, the dethroned Emperor, the heart-broken Captive, forgotten by those whom lie had raised from the dust and made illustrious, abandoned by his Austrian wife, and deprived of any communication with his idolized child. The grand Napoleonic head is here, which always shows so admirably in marble. The forehead is the same as that which wore the coronet of France and the iron crown of Charlemagne, but his temples are sunken and his cavernous eyes seem gazing down the vista of the years of captivity-to the time when he was master of Europe and made or unmade kings at will. In his lap is the outspread map of Europe, upon which rests his nerveless hand. That hand once carved out kingdoms there. It is now powerless to trace his name! Surely this statue (true to life and history) tells us that if Napoleon greatly sinned, he suffered correspondingly. To rise from the position of an obscure lieutenant of artillery to be the conqueror of half of Europe and sovereign of Prance and Italy; to place his family on the thrones of Holland, Spain, Naples and Westphalia, to equal Caesar in his victories, to wed a daughter of the Austrian Emperor, to plan to have his son succeed him in his glorious dynasty, and then to lose it all and linger on, chained like Prometheus to a barren rock, his heart continually gnawed by the implacable vulture of Regret—what tragedy has the world beheld to equal it? Better to fall like the first Car, 'neath the daggers of conspirators, than die by inches on a sengirt cliff, as did the Caesar of the Nineteenth Cesitury. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2025-01-19T19:14:42.000Z

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