This is a copy of a Punch cartoon from 1853. It shows the Emperor Louis-Napoleon on his approaching marriage.
Dalziel, ‘The Eagle in Love’, illustration for James M Haswell, The Man of his Time: The Story of the Life of Napoleon III (London: John Camden Hotten, [1871]). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188, print no. 1643. By Permission of the Trustees of The British Museum. All Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016