Antique Print-EUROPEAN-LEADERS-SIGNATURES-NAPOLEONIC-WARS-Bowyer-1815

Name: Antique Print-EUROPEAN-LEADERS-SIGNATURES-NAPOLEONIC-WARS-Bowyer-1815
SKU: PICTURA-06689
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‘FAC SIMILES.’

– A detailed facsimile engraving of signatures from significant European leaders and military figures who played crucial roles during the Napoleonic Wars. The signatures are artistically arranged with military-themed embellishments, banners, and allegorical elements. This print is part of Robert Bowyer’s illustrated historical documentation of the events of 1812-1815. Full list of names with their corresponding numbers:
1. Francis II, Emperor of Austria
2, 3. Alexander I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias (in Russian and French)
4. Frederick William III, King of Prussia
5. His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre
6. Charles-Philippe, de France (Count d’Artois), Monsier, brother of the King of France
7. Charles-John (Bernadotte), Crown-Prince of Sweden
8. The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, and Marquis Douro, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain, Marquis of Torres Vedras, and Duke of Vittoria in Portugal, Knight of the Most Noble Orders of the Garter, Bath, and Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, a Field-Marshal in the British Army, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards Blue, Ambassador Extraordinary to His Most Christian Majesty, Commander-in-Chief of the British and Hanoverian Forces in Belgium
9. Field-Marshal Prince Kutusoff-Smolensko, Marshal-in-Chief of all the Armies of Russia, in the Campaign of 1812
10. His Highness the Marshal Prince of Schwartzberg, Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian Army, and President of the Aulic Council of War
11. Marshal Blucher, Prince of Wagstadt, Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Army
12. The Right Hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, Lord Hawkesbury, First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Commissioner for the Affairs of India, Constable of Dover Castle, Warden, Keeper, and Admiral of the Cinque Ports, Knight of the Garter
13. The Right Hon. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, late Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain to the Congress at Vienna, Knight of the Garter
14. Prince Metternich, Prime Minister to the Emperor of Austria
15. Count Nesselrode, Prime Minister to the Emperor of Russia
16. Prince Hardenberg, Minister of State to the King of Prussia
17. Prince Talleyrand, Ambassador Extraordinary from His Most Christian Majesty to the Congress at Vienna
18. The Right Hon. John Hope, Lord Niddry, K.B. a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, Colonel of the 92nd Regiment of Foot
19. The Right Hon. Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, K.B. a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, Colonel of the 90th Regiment of Foot
20. The Right Hon. Stapleton Cotton, Lord Combermere, K.B. a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, Colonel of the 8th Regiment of Dragoons
21. The Right Hon. Rowland Hill, Lord Hill, K.B. a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, Colonel of the 94th Regiment of Foot, and Governor of Blackness Castle
22. The Right Hon. William Carr Beresford, Lord Beresford, K.B. a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, Governor of Cork, and Colonel of the 88th Regiment of Foot
23. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, K.B. Colonel of the 77th Regiment of Foot
24. Count Barclay de Tolly, Minister at War to the Emperor of all the Russias
25. Prince Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks
26. General Benningsen, a distinguished Officer in the Russian Army
27. Count Winzingerode, a General in the Russian Army
28. Prince Bagration, a General in the Russian Army
29. Admiral Chichagoff, a General in the Russian Army
30. General Chernischeff, of the Russian Army
31. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Stewart, Lord Stewart, K.B. Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, Lieutenant-General in the British Army
32. Field-Marshal Count Bellegrade, late Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian Army in Italy
33. Marshal Berthier, Prince of Neufchatel and Wagram
34. Marshal Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum
35. His Royal Highness the Prince Royal of Wirtemberg
36. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, brother of his Imperial Majesty, Alexander I. Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias
37. His Highness Field-Marshal the Prince of Wrede, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the King of Bavaria
38. The late Right Hon. William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer

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SKU: PICTURA-06689 Categories: Military-Heraldry-Political, Portraits-Figures Tag: Famous People

Description

Medium: Line etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 47.3 x 33.5 cm (18.62 x 13.19 inch). Image size: 47.3 x 33.5 cm. (18.62 x 13.19 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, with minimal creasing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

NAPOLEON, EUROPEAN LEADERS, FACSIMILE SIGNATURES, HISTORICAL ENGRAVING, ROBERT BOWYER, FRANCIS II, ALEXANDER I, FREDERICK WILLIAM III, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, KUTUZOV, SCHWARZENBERG, BL?CHER, BERNADOTTE, NAPOLEONIC WARS | MAP-BOWYER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Bowyer, Robert (1758-1834). An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, during the Years 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815. Comprising a Series of Views of Paris, Moscow, the Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin, the Battle of Leipsic, etc. etc. etc. Together with a History of those Momentous Transactions. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for R. Bowyer, Marlborough Place, Pall Mall. 1815.

This forms the second part of a work of which the first part is The triumphs of Europe, in the campaigns of the years 1812, 1813, 1814 (paged continuously with the present work) and the third part is The campaign of Waterloo.

Biography engraver: Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) was a British miniature painter and print publisher. He initially gained recognition for his portrait miniatures, painting the likes of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Rutland. In the 1790s, he shifted to print publishing, producing illustrated works such as an edition of the Bible and Hume’s The History of England. His “Historic Gallery” in Pall Mall displayed commissioned works for these publications. Later in life, he became involved in religious causes and missionary work.