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| Title | Cinquième et dernier tour de Passe-passe |
| Subtitle | ou le grand escamoteur escamoté |
| Creator | [Elie] |
| Place of Publication | [France -- Paris] |
| Date | [1815] |
| Caption Text | Caption on image: [caption text, handwritten]Cinquième et dernier tour de Passe-passe, ou le grand escamoteur escamoté (The fifth and last turn of passe-passe [a vanishing trick], or the great conjurer conjures)
Signage (handwritten) :
Mont St. Jean (Waterloo)
Disparais (disappears)
Leipsic (Leipzig)
Moskou (Moscow)
Espagne (Spain)
Egypte
St. Hélène
HS Bellérophon (ship that transported Napoleon to England)
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| Historical Notes | Wellington is dressed as a magician, and is performing a classic vanishing trick. There are four tumblers lying on their sides, labeled with the names of major losses by Napoleon; Wellington holds a fifth, labeled Mont. St. Jean and Disparais, in his right hand. A tiny Napoleon is running away, but Wellington is about to capture him with the Mont St. Jean (Waterloo) tumbler. In the background you can see the British warship Bellerophon, which is shown sailing toward St. Helena.
Reference source: George #12602.
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| Publishing Notes | This is a pencil sketch of a drawing published in 1815, with the dépôt légal on August 11, 1815. A printed version can be found in the De Vinck collection (#9736) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris).
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP76 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | F43 |
| Object Type | Drawing |
| Physical Description | Graphite and ink ; 34 x 25 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. |
