Napoleon III. Emperor of the French. DJ Pound c1853.

by John Tallis & Company

Antique print of Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte drawn and engraved by D.J. Pound, published in London c1853 by The London Printing and Publishing Company. Engraved on steel, surrounded by appropriate emblems of military rule, in the traditional style of Tallis publishers. (Ephraim Tipton Brain formed a partnership with John Tallis in 1853, to form The London Printing and Publishing Company.)

The third son of Napoleon I's brother, Louis Bonaparte (who was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810), Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Paris on 20 April 1808 and died in Chiselhurst, England on January 9, 1873. He was the first president of the second Republic of France, from 1848 to 1852, and presided over twenty years of prosperity with a stable authoritarian government of France. He was the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870 - after France's defeat in the Franco-German War (1870-1871). He spent most of his childhood and youth in exile, banished from France in 1815 after Napoleon I was deposed. Prior to his reign he was known as Louis-Napoleon.

The page size of this fine engraving is 275 x 180 (approximately 10.75 x 7 inches)