Flight of Napoléon Bonaparte from the Battle of KRASNOI 1812.
London Published April 1st 1815 by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.
An original aquatint print from "The Martial achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815.
London: Printed for James Jenkins, No 48, Strand, By L. Harrison & J. C. Leigh, 373 Strand.
Original aquatint engraving on medium weight wove paper with fine hand colour.
Drawing by William Heath (delt) with aquatint engraving by T. Sutherland (sculpt).
The Battle of Krasnoi (Krasny) (November 15 to 18, 1812) was not so much a battle as it was a series of skirmishes,
ambushes, raids, marches and counter-marches, fought in the final stage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Napoleon with a group of four others, including a Mamluk wearing a turban with a curled moustache
galloping off to left, holding onto his hat against the wind, which blows his cloak around him and looking
back at a small body of cavalry which fires at them, other men on the crest of a hill in the background to right
wounded men in the foreground and billowing…