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Engraved, hand-colored hand fan, depicting a map of Europe and cartouche of Napoleon mounted on a seaborne chariot. Mounted on 20 wooden sticks fastened by a mother-of-pearl button. 9.5" H x 16" W at greatest extent when opened. Likely issued between 1803 and 1810.

Cast from original dies, depicting recognizable events in Napoleon's rise, reign, and death.

Based on the depiction in Jacques-Louis David's well-known painting, Napoleon at the Saint Bernard Pass. Donated by Donald D. Horward, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Founding Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. This statuette has a partner, a statuette of Wellington, also in FSU Special Collections & Archives.