At right of caption title: When the Phoenix is tired of Life, he builds a Nest upon the Mountains, and setting it on Fire by the wafting of his own Wings - he perishes Himself in the Flames! - and from the Smoke of his Ashes arises a new Phoenix to illuminate the World!!! - Vide. The New Spanish Encyclopaedia. Edit. 1808.
Print shows the phoenix with the head of Napoleon. His flaming nest is the terrestrial globe, resting on sheaves of bayoneted muskets laid on a flat-topped pinnacle inscribed 'Pyrenean Mountains'. His blazing crown flies upwards from his head; his claws are raised in horror and from one his sceptre falls. On the globe is a map of countries surrounding the Mediterranean, the central spot being 'Corsica'. The burning countries are 'Portugal', 'Spain', 'France', 'Sicily', 'Germany', 'Italy', and 'Turkey'. At the base of the globe is the north of 'Africa' with 'Morocco' and 'Algiers'. Above the flames emerges a dove holding an olive branch, its wings inscribed 'Peace on Earth'.