Descriptive text below the etching reads as follows:
"Description of the hieroglyphic Portrait of Buonaparte The French Eagle crouching forms the chapeau en militaire. The Red Sea represents his throat illustrative of his drowning armies. The visage is formed of carcases of the unhappy victims to his cruel ambition. The hand is judiciously placed as the epaulet drawing the Rhenish Confederacy under the flimsy symbol of the cob-web. The spider is a symbolic emblem of the vigilance of the Allies."
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