Napoleon. Port Ferrajo, in the Isle of Elba, c1844

French military on Isle of Elba antique print.

On 11 April 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders of all time, abdicated the throne. With the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau, he was exiled to the Island of Elba in the Mediterranean. 

Original copperplate engraving on hand-laid paper, engraved by R. Campbell after the drawing by w.M. Greig, and published in Boston by S. Walker in 1844.

Printed on hand-laid paper, the page size is 222 x 255mm (8 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches). To border around engraving measures approximately 155 x 225 (6 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches).