"On saying these words, he laid hold of me by the middle of the back, and holding me as a man holds a lantern, I had leisure to contemplate for some minutes, this imposing wonder."

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ThomasDighton
active 19th century
"On saying these words, he laid hold of me by the middle of the back, and holding me as a man holds a lantern, I had leisure to contemplate for some minutes, this imposing wonder."
lithograph
image: 190 x 110 mm; sheet: 235 x 154 mm
Peel 2005
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title from caption.
Frontispiece plate detached from Zongo-Tee-Foh-Tchi [pseudonym], Napoleon in the other world : a narrative written by himself: and found near his tomb in the island of St. Helena. London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
Printed below image: Designed and drawn on stone by T. Dighton. Printed by C. Hullmandel.

Summary: 

A giant angel holds a diminutive Napoleon suspended over an enormous city.

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