Political Chimists and German Retorts, Or Dissolving the Protector of the Rhenish Confederacy

• Thomas Rowlandson, English
• Image: 9.5 x 13.5 in.
  Iron gall ink drawing with graphite underdrawing on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.147
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A political satire on the consequences of allied victories. In a goblet-shaped glass vessel on the top of a cylindrical "German stove," a little Napoleon is being heated to dissolution point.