Anthony Emmett of the Royal Engineers was only about 25, but already much battle-scarred, when he was appointed commanding royal engineer on St Helena during Napoléon's exile. It may have been his dream job...

The willows weeping over Napoleon's grave in St Helena achieved iconic status in the imagery and writing about the island in the 19th century. Sketches and prints of the scene ranged from the realistic to the romantic, the latter including a fanciful sub-genre depicting the emperor's silhouette hidden between the trunks of the trees at the grave. One of the more conventional images of Napoleon's grave: 'The Tomb of Bonaparte', hand-coloured etching and aquatint by Thomas Suth