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Object Type
Museum number: 1918,0423.15
Title: Object: 1815
Description: The plain of Waterloo with, in foreground, group of cavalrymen led by silver-haired officer, going to right; in the middleground, Napoleon on a white horse watching infantrymen leaving for the battlefield; group of officers behind him, at right; with remarque of the imperial eagle at right, and bust portraits of Wellington and Blucher at left; signed proof, with publication line in top margin. c.1897 Etching on vellum
Producer name: Print made by: Jules Jacquet; After: Richard Caton Woodville (Junior); Published by: Henry Graves & Co; Published by: Stiefbold & Co; Printed by: Alfred Porcabeuf
School/style
Production date: 1897 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: Berlin (city); Printed in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 545 millimetres (sheet); Width: 898 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Declared to Printsellers' Association on 11 June 1897.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (42); De Vinck 1909-1967 / Collection De Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe. Inventaire analytique. (not described)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Representation of: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher; Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Associated events: Associated Event: Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1918
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1918,0423.15

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