Napoleon is shown being transported to Elba, riding the imperial eagle and surrounded by other trappings of the empire (the bees and the crowns of Italy and France). He carries the files on the many military conscriptions he carried out to staff his armies.
Reference source: Catalog of the De Vinck collection, and Arenenberg catalog
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.