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The present lot directly relates to Lt. Col. Basil Jackson's portrait of Napoleon, Bonaparte, from a drawing done at St. Helena in 1817 by Mr Jackson Royal Staff Corps, which was printed in lithograph, circa 1817-1830, published by John Dickinson and printed by Redman (see British Museum collection, no. 1012.431). It is possible that the present work is an intermediary or preparatory watercolour used as a design for the published lithograph.
Edward Purcell was an early exponent of lithography; see for example his satirical work The Holy Alliance Unmasked' (Alexander I, Tsar of Russia; Napoléon Bonaparte; Francis I, Emperor of Austria; Louis Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington) published by Joseph Dickinson, 1823 (National Portrait Gallery collection, no. D48682).