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Object Type: print; book; map
Museum number: 1949,0114.7.1-7
Title: Object: The Campaign of Waterloo; Object: Mr. Bowyer's Splendid Work of the Campaign of Waterloo, including A Copious History of Every Occurence Connected with that Memorable Event; and Illustrated with a Grand View of the Battle, and Other Interesting Views, taken on the Scene
Description: A book on the subject of the Waterloo campaign, with a long text descriptive of the Hundred Days and the prelude and aftermath of the battle, with five plates illustrative of geographical features of the field, a map of the battlefield, a large fold out view of the battle from Mont St Jean, two plates with portraits of the British and the Allies and the French Royal Family, the family of Bonaparte and French generals and statesmen and two vignettes of the island of St. Helena. 1816. The individual plates as follows: 1. A view of the town of Waterloo, the church on the hill to the right and terraced houses along the road to the left, British horse artillery driving a convoy of French cannon away from the battlefield, citizens watching, some from their carriages 2. A view of the partially ruined Chateau d'Hougoumont, the riders on the road to the gates and spectators accompanied by a British officer to the foreground 3. A view of La Haye Sainte, looking towards Waterloo, the partially ruined farmhouse to the left, a carriage driving along the road with other riders and walkers travelling in both directions, grave-diggers at work to the right with numerous freshly dug graves 4. A view of Quatre Bras, looking towards Waterloo, a phaeton on the road, grave-diggers at work on either side of the road with numerous freshly dug graves 5. A view of La Belle Alliance, looking towards Genappe, the inn partially ruined and another ruined building beyond, a British officer with two companions to the foreground and a group of two civilians on horseback in conversation with peasants 6. A map of the battlefield showing the positions of the British and Allied, Prussian and French forces (delineated as infantry and cavalry) and the notable landmarks such as roads, towns, buildings and woods 7. A view of the battle from Mont St. Jean with the advance of the British line, a regiment of Highlanders to the left engaged with French cavalry, some cheering Wellington and his staff who ride to the left, several of his mounted officers with swords drawn directing the British charge, a regiment of British line infantry advancing, British artillery and cavalry marching forward from the left, the farmhouse of Hogoumont and the battle raging beyond 8. 48 portraits of the British and the Allies, all in roundels, most in uniform though some in civilian clothes, comprising the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the King of the Netherlands, the Tsar, Marshal Blucher, the Duke of York, the Duke of Brunswick, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Sidmouth, Viscount Castlereagh, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Melville, Charles William Stewart, the Marquess of Anglesey, Lord Hill, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Beresford, Sir Thomas Picton, Prince William of Prussia, Prince William of Orange, the King of Saxony, the Prince Royal of Wirtemberg, the Grand Duke of Russia, Prince Schwartzenberg, Prince von Wrede, Prince Hardenberg, Prince Bagrathion, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld, Count Barclay de Tolly, Prince Koutousoff-Smolenski, Count Platoff, Count Bubna, Count Bellegarde, Count Rostopchin, General Benningsen, General Chernicheff, General Kleist and General Bülow 9. 50 portraits of the French Royal Family, the family of Bonaparte and French generals and statesmen, all in roundels, most in uniform though some in civilian clothes, comprising Louis XVIII, the Comte d'Artois, the Duc de Berri, the Duc d'Angouleme, the Duchesse d'Angoueleme, Joseph Bonaparte, Lucien Bonaparte, Maria Louisa, Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine, Louis Bonaparte, Jerome Bonaparte, Prince Francis Charles, Fouche, Cambaceres, Murat, Eugene Beauharnois, Talleyrand Perigord, General Carnot, Marshal Ney, General Augereau, Marshal Soult, Berthier, Davoust, Massena, Jourdan, Suchet, Macdonald, Marmont, Oudinot, Victor, Mortier, Saint Cyr, Regnaud de St. Jean D'Angley, Caulaincourt, the Duke of Bassano, Count Bertrand, Savary, Duroc, Grouchy, Marshal Kellermann, Prince Poniatowski, Junot, Andreossi, Sebastiani, Hulin, General Rapp, the Duke de Feltre, Lanjuinais, General Lauriston Coloured aquatint, engraving and etching
Producer name: Published by: Robert Bowyer; Printed by: Thomas Bensley
School/style: British
Production date: 1816
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: aquatint; colour; etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 485 millimetres (page size); Width: 324 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: soldier; cavalry; military costume; recruitment; british costume 18thc
Associated names: Portrait of: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Francis I, Emperor of Austria; Portrait of: Alexander I, Tsar of Russia; Portrait of: Frederick William III, King of Prussia; Portrait of: William I, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxemburg; Portrait of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Portrait of: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher; Portrait of: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück; Portrait of: Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Oels; Portrait of: Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool; Portrait of: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Portrait of: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry; Portrait of: Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst; Portrait of: Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby; Portrait of: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; Portrait of: Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry; Portrait of: Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey; Portrait of: Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill; Portrait of: Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch; Portrait of: William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford; Portrait of: Sir Thomas Picton; Portrait of: William, Prince of Prussia; Portrait of: William Orange; Portrait of: Frederick Augustus I and III, Elector and King of Saxony and Grand Duke of Warsaw; Portrait of: William I, King of Würtemberg; Portrait of: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich; Portrait of: Fürst Karl Philipp von Wrede; Portrait of: Karl August von Hardenberg; Portrait of: Pyotr Ivanovich Bagrathion; Portrait of: Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; Portrait of: Barclay de Tolly; Portrait of: Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov; Portrait of: Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov; Portrait of: Ferdinand, Graf Bubna von Littitz; Portrait of: Heinrich von Bellegarde; Portrait of: Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin; Portrait of: Paul Aleksandrovich Stroganoff; Portrait of: Comte Ignác Gyulay de Marosnémeti et Nádaska; Portrait of: Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken; Portrait of: Graf Johann David Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg; Portrait of: Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein; Portrait of: Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron; Portrait of: Friedrich Karl Baron of Tettenborn; Portrait of: General Levin August von Bennigsen; Portrait of: Major General Chernicheff; Portrait of: Friedrich Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Kleist von Nollendorf; Portrait of: Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow, Count of Dennewitz; Portrait of: Louis XVIII, King of France; Portrait of: Charles X, King of France and Navarre; Portrait of: Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duc d'Angoulême; Portrait of: Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry; Portrait of: Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame Royale, Duchess of Angoulême; Portrait of: Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain; Portrait of: Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano; Portrait of: Marie Louise, Empress of the French and Duchess of Parma; Portrait of: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Portrait of: Joséphine, Empress of the French; Portrait of: Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland; Portrait of: Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia; Portrait of: Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt; Portrait of: Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante; Portrait of: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès; Portrait of: Joachim Murat, King of Naples; Portrait of: Eugène de Beauharnais; Portrait of: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevento; Portrait of: Lazare Carnot; Portrait of: Michel Ney; Portrait of: Pierre François Charles Augereau, Duke of Castiglione; Portrait of: Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult; Portrait of: Louis Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neuchâtel; Portrait of: Louis Nicolas Davout; Portrait of: André Masséna; Portrait of: Jean Baptiste Jourdan; Portrait of: Louis Gabriel Suchet, duc d'Albufera; Portrait of: Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente; Portrait of: Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont; Portrait of: Nicolas Charles Marie Oudinot; Portrait of: Claude Victor Perrin, Duc de Bellune; Portrait of: Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier; Portrait of: Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr; Portrait of: Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély; Portrait of: Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza; Portrait of: Hugues Bernard Maret, Duc de Bassano; Portrait of: Henri Gatien, Comte Bertrand; Portrait of: Anne Jean Marie René Savary, Duc de rovigo; Portrait of: Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, Duc de Frioul; Portrait of: Marquis Emmanuel de Grouchy; Portrait of: François Christophe Kellermann; Portrait of: Prince Joseph Poniatowski; Portrait of: Jean Andoche Junot, duc d'Abrantès; Portrait of: Comte Antoine Francois Andréossy; Portrait of: Comte Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta; Portrait of: Pierre Augustin Hulin; Portrait of: Jean Rapp; Portrait of: Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Comte d'Hunebourg, Duc de Feltre; Portrait of: Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais; Portrait of: Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston; Portrait of: Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Waterloo; Topographic representation of: St Helena (island)
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Lt-Col J G Birch
Acquisition date: 1949
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1949,0114.7.1-7

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