NAPOLEON engraved by W. Hall after F.Gerard antique print c1833.

by Charles Knight

Antique print. Emperor Napoleon published by Charles Knight.

Fine stipple and steel engraved portrait of Napoleon by engraver, lithographer and copperplate printer W. Hall, From a Picture by F. Gérard in the pofsession of the Publisher, Charles Knight. Published c1833 by Charles Knight & Co. Ludgate, London (with fine later hand-colour).

Charles Knight was said to be "a multifaceted man of letters in the pre-specialist early nineteenth-century sense of the term: that is, a scholar, an author, a critic and according to Carlyle 'our most important modern person' ". His career as a popular educator and publisher spanned nearly sixty years, from 1812 to 1869.

Page size: 260 x 175mm (10 1/4 x 7 inches) the small engraving measures 130 x 105mm (5 1/8 x 4 1/8 inches). This engraving has faint soiling around the edges of the page.