Chromolithograph engraving depicting Napoleon Bonaparte in youth and old age.

Dimensions 21 x 25 cm. No margin. No indication of artist, engraver, publisher or date. A good, clean image, with slight wear to extremities and evidence of previous mounting on reverse. A striking and attractive image, showing a young Napoleon, in dashing and colourful costume, his left hand extended towards an eagle perching on a branch of a tree behind him, and his right hand holding the left hand of an aged and dejected napoleon, seated on a rock in front of the tree, a stormy and windswept St Helena sea before him. The background of the picture is divided into two by the bark of the tree, and behind the young Napoleon the sun sets beautifully over mountains rising up behind the pyramids on an Egyptian desert plain. An attractive and unusual depiction of the Emperor, skillfully composed, executed and coloured. Suitable for framing.