2-715-039 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Death of Murat', (1815), 1816. Joachim Murat (1767- 1815) Marshal of France under the reign of Napoleon, captured by King Ferdinand IV of Naples, imprisoned in the Castello di Pizzo, tried for treason and sentenced to death by firing squad. From "The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. III", by Hewson Clarke, Esq. [T. Kinnersley, Limited, London, 1816]