Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved telecommunications Hackney Marsh

Hackney Marsh

Regent's Canal

'Lamentation over Christ'

The view shows St Paul's Cathedral and St Mary-le-Bow with families on the move

with St Paul's Cathedral in the distance

Napoleon on a plate ready to be carved telecommunications Hackney MarshNapoleon on a plate ready to be carved, 1814. A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte, who appears, skewered like a fowl, on a plate, bearing the City arms, alongside which lies a sword inscribed Blucher's carving Knife. This is a reference to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, a Prussian who defeated the French and captured 18,000 prisoners before entering Paris, aged 71. A man possibly John Bull, the personification of England frolics in a frothing