The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 114
n should be blotted out of the page of history, we would recom-mend that his amputated arm be placed by his side, to convince futureages that he was once a perfect being, and furthermore to satisfy thepublic who ever crave after monstrosities,! the arms and legs of hisbrave comrades might be piled… … * This fine statue of Napoleon is in the possession of his Grace the Duke ofWellington, at Apsley-house.—Ed. t We liavri ilogmrilical proofs tliat the French have outyeneralleil us insculptural atrocities, for in the triumphal arcli of Napoleon at Marseilles,there are poodle-Jogs, and a whole…
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