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| Title | Du Haut en Bas |
| Subtitle | ou les Causes et les Effets |
| Creator | Anonymous |
| Place of Publication | [France -- Paris] |
| Date | [1814] |
| Caption Text | Caption on image:
Du haut en Bas...ou les Causes et les Effets (From high to low, or causes and effects)
Dialogue and signage:
Madrid
Fontainebleau
Moscou
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| Historical Notes | This drawing attributes Napoleon's downfall to having created an empire too vast for his governing skills. He is shown taking an immense stride from Madrid, represented by a cluster of Gothic pinnacles, to Moscow, represented by the onion domes of the Kremlin. His stilts rest only on the spikes which project from pinnacles and domes. The stilts are breaking and he is about to fall. He has dropped his scepter and orb, he's looking down, and his hat is falling. Madrid and Moscow are divided by the ornamental water or canal leading from the waterfront of Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated on April 6, 1814. Green hills lie between Madrid and Fontainebleau.
Napoleon's fall is generally agreed to have been caused by his Spanish policy and the Moscow campaign. The design is adapted from the well-known French satire L'Enjambée Impériale, where Catherine strides triumphantly from Russia to Constantinople.
Reference source: Clerc #57; George #12241.
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| Publishing Notes | Clerc assigns a publication date of "after April 2, 1814.(# Also found in the De Vinck Collection (#8981) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) and in the Collection de l'histoire de France, Qb1, April 20, 1814.
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP58 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | F26 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 33 x 24 cm. on sheet 38 x 27 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. |
