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Gasconaders or the Grand Army Retreating from Moscow, 2 satires on the Russian campaign, the first a two-column broadside showing Napoleon and his severely frostbitten generals planning a further assault, the second depicting French troops in disarray after Napoleon returned to Paris to attend to other matters, original hand-coloured etchings, 370 x 270mm . and 245x 345mm., respectively, [BM Satires 12033 and 12050, respectively], Fores and Tegg, respectively, 1813; NapOmnipotent or the Acme of Arrogance and Presumption, alluding to shifting alliances in the spring of 1813, after the defection of Austria to Russia, Napoleon is here imagined threatening to overthrow the Prussian emperor, [BM Satires 12048] ; Dramatic Effect or the Death of Gen.l Duroc, the loss of one of Napoleon's senior generals at the Battle of Bautzen in May, [BM Satires 12061] ; with a satire on the same incident by W.H. Brooke (signed W.H. Ekoorb), paired with a domestic satire on Catholic emancipation, Tragedy; Comedy, for the Satirist, [BM Satires 12064 and 12065] ; with 2 satires by George Cruikshank on Wellington's victory in Spain, in June, The Battle of Vittoria, and More Trophies for White-hall!!! [BM Satires 12068 and 12071, respectively], Thomas Tegg, 1813 (7)