The Congress at Vienna in Great Consternation

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From left to right:

Russia: Beware the ides of March

Austria: It is the part of men to fear and tremble when the most mighty gods, by tokens send such dreadful heralds to astonish us.

Sweden: Why saw you anything more wonderful!!!

Prussia: A Common slave you know him well by sight! Hold up his left hand which did flame and burn like twenty torches join’d; and yet his hand not sensible of fire remain’d unscorch’d!!!

herald: The Hero comes

Napoleon (from the Island of Elba): Tell them I come to settle that part which relates to France.

Curator Notes

Type: 
Political Cartoon
Exact Title: 
The Congress at Vienna in great Consternation
Probable Date: 
ca. 1815
Author/Creator: 
William Charles Sc.
Place of Publication: 
Philadelphia
Dimensions: 
24.6 x 35.4 cm.
Materials: 
1 print : etching, aquatint and roulette
Institution: 
American Antiquarian Society
Catalog Code: 
Polit. Cart. C750