Monument to Napoleon! (satirical drawing)

British caricaturists, including Cruikshank, really stretched their imagination to mock the Emperor during his reign. However, in an all-British restraint, it appears that none of them mentioned his death. Twenty years later, the tomb and the polemics it provoked in France rekindled the satirical flame. “On the removal of Napoleon’s remains, I prepared [this] design for a monument,” explained the artist. “But it was not sent, because it was not wanted. There is this disadvantage about a design for his monument—it will suit nobody else(…).”