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Inscription: Recto: lower right, printed: J. Kay 1814
Inscription: Recto: upper centre margin, printed: GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF ELBA.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: Description of the hieroglyphic Portrait of Buonaparte. / The French Eagle crouching forms the chapeau en militaire. / The Red Sea represents his throat illustrative of his drowning armies. / The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition. / The hand is judiciously placed as the epaulet drawing the Rhenish Confederacy / under the flimsy symbol of the cobweb. / The spider is a symbolic emblem of the vigilance of the Allies.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, printed: 336
Inscription: Recto: within image, printed: RHINE / EHREFORT / Weser / ELBE / Roder / A R P S / Leipzig / Lutzen / Culm / Kazbach
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