A satirical head and shoulders portrait of Napoleon. Napoleon's hat is an eagle representing Prussia; which has dug its claws into Napoleon by one interpretation; or is the 'discomfited French Eagle; maimed and crouching'.

Napoleon's face is formed of the bodies of the dead amassed during his campaigns; his collar is a sea of blood with a vessel below his ear; his jacket shows the Rhineland states; the dissolved Confederation that had been Napoleon's puppets; the order of the Legion of Honour shows the spider's web in which the Confederations' members had been caught; his epaulette is the 'Hand Of God'; which will free Germany from the spider; or is 'an Emblem of the Vigilance of the Allies; who have inflicted on that Hand a deadly Sting'. Pictures From History