Drawing
- Title:
- Napoleon Crossing the Alps
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1972.010.02
- Creator:
- Newman, Solon (1832-1904)
Calligrapher - Place of Origin:
- Washington, NH
- Date:
- circa 1855
- Description:
- Drawing of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, by Solon Newman (1832-1904), c. 1855. Pen and ink and watercolor on heavy paper. Dappled horse rearing toward left. Male rider, with body in profile, head facing front, points forward with right hand. His dress includes a bicorn hat and a cape which appears to have blown forward on his right side. Sword at his left side with an eagle's head pommel and gilded cross guard. General coloration: rider's hat and boots and horse's coat brown; horse's mane and tail gray; rider's clothing and horse's harness deep pink and blue; gilded decoration on hat, cuff and collar. Calligraphic inscription with flourishes lower center: "Napoleon Crossing the Alps / Executed with the Pen / By / Solon Newman." Matted but not framed. Copied from a lithograph, "Napoleon Crossing the Alps," printed by D. W. Kellogg & Co., Hartford, CT, 1830-1840.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-18 W-13.75 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Bonaparte, Napoleon, Calligraphy, Penmanship, Horses
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