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| Title | C'est la casquette à papa |
| Creator | [Lacroix] |
| Publisher | [Anonymous] |
| Place of Publication | [France -- Paris] |
| Date | [1815] |
| Caption Text | Caption on image:
C'est la casquette à papa (It's papa's hat)
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| Historical Notes | Louis XVIII is shown snoozing after enjoying his dinner. His crown has fallen off and the King of Rome (Napoleon's 3-year-old son) is picking it up and trying it on.
Although the general assumption was that Louis XVIII would be restored to the throne after Napoleon was defeated, there was a faction in the French assembly that preferred Napoleon's son to the Bourbon family. Here the caricaturist shows that Louis is too self-indulgent to be effective and that the crown can be stolen away.
Reference source: Broadley #250.
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| Publishing Notes | Published March 1815. Dépôt légal May 13, 1815.
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824
Bonaparte, Francois-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP72 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | F38 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 19 x 24 cm. on sheet 24 x 33 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
