Hand-colored etching cut into strips, depicting Emperor Napoleon leaving for the Island of St. Helena, captioned “Il s'en va cette fois pour tout de bon” (“He's leaving this time for good”). A pull allows this image to be replaced by a full-length portrait of King Louis XVIII, inscribed “Vive le Roi” (“Long live the King”). The fleur-de-lys and crown of the Bourbon dynasty are in a frame below.

Inscribed Canu Fecit rue St Jacques N°29 for engraver and print publisher Jean Dominique Étienne Canu.

Condition: tears and stains (later rebacked)

This transformation card illustrates the Second Restoration and the return of the Bourbons to power in France, after the Cents-Jours, the defeat at Waterloo and the second abdication on June 22, 1815 of Napoleon, who was then exiled to St. Helena, where he died in 1821.