Nu moet ik met myn Haan, bedaard naar Elba gaan

This Dutch etching mocks Napoleon's exile to Elba through zoomorphic satire. A uniformed officer—identifiable by his bicorne hat and military regalia—rides an oversized rooster, which serves as a beast of burden and symbol of French pride brought low. The print belongs to the rich European tradition of political graphic satire: from Hogarth's moral narratives through Gillray's vicious caricatures to the Bilderbogen picture-sheets circulating across German and Dutch territories. The animal transformation, exaggerated profile, and domestic ridicule of a fallen military leader typify early 19th-century print culture, where caricature functioned as popular commentary on continental politics. Such images spread rapidly in print shops, prefiguring how visual satire would structure emerging comic forms.