Napoleon
Napoleon
- Description (Brief)
- Color print; full length portrait of a man in military uniform (Napoleon Bonaparte) mounted on horseback and holding a sword in his right hand. Troops are sketched in the background.
- This print was produced by Frederick Gleason (1814-1896). a lithographer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in September 1814 in Germany, Gleason moved to the United States in October 1836, and began his career as a bookbinder. He became a citizen in June 1840. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1851, modelled on the Illustrated London News. At the time an innovation in American publishing, it brought him considerable success. After the Pictorial, Gleason published Gleason's Literary Companion from 1860–70; Gleason's Home Circle from 1871–90; and Gleason's Monthly Companion from 1872–87. He was married a second time after his first wife died, and he died November 6, 1896 in Boston.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- depicted
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- maker
- Gleason, Frederick
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Measurements
- image: 12 in x 10 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3163
- catalog number
- 60.3163
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- European History
- Horseback Riding
- Diplomacy
- Uniforms, Military
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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