Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.

Lord Cochrane is on the left, Beranger on the right, with huge black moustaches indicating Prussian nationality. In the background Napoleon has been tossed in the air by a bull with a man's face, representing John Bull

On 21 February 1814 Captain de Beranger, using a pseudonym, announced that Napoleon had been killed in battle. The value of stocks rose, and a consortium including Lord Cochrane sold at great profit. Cochrane swore an affidavit that he had been deceived by Beranger

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1 April 1814]

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.8 x 34.5 cm

Gambling in the stocks. G. Cruikshank fect.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1949, vol. 9, no. 12209

Wellcome Collection 38455i