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Printed Silk Immortality "Dedicated to Posterity...

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Printed Silk Immortality "Dedicated to Posterity and Immortality" of Emperor Napoleon I in Caesar. Invented and designed by Charles Toussaint 1812, engraved by Hyacinthe Mainailly-Rien. Laybach 1812. Tracing all the names of his family and his entourage, both military and civilian. The imperial family, the great eagles of the Legion of Honour, the federation of the Rhine, the Council of State, the Conservative Senate, the divisional generals, the great dignitaries of the Empire, the marshals of the Empire, the great officers and civilians of the Crown, the kingdoms erected by Napoleon, the great dignitaries of the Iron Crown, the imperial navy, the inspectors and colonels general, the ministers of the Empire, Napoleon the Protector, the peace treaties... Framed under glass. 62 x 87 cm, B.E. First Empire period. Provenance: Collection Brocart, sale Etude Dumousset-Deburaux, June 1998, n°H3.