Battle of Waterloo
Maker
(artist)
ca. 1770-1836 (Life dates)
(engraver)
active 1786-1838 (Life dates)
(publisher)
ca. 1770-1836 (Life dates)
(engraver)
active 1786-1838 (Life dates)
(publisher)
Title
Battle of Waterloo
Date of Production
18 April 1816
Dimensions
Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 27.4 cm
Width: 27.4 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3964
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed: "BATTLE OF WATERLOO. / W. Scott's Poem, P.23."; lower left margin, printed: "I.H.Clark delt."; lower centre margin, printed: "Published & Sold, April 18, 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & H,R,H, the Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London."; lower right margin, printed: "M. Dubourg sculpt."; lower centre, printed: ""But on the British heart were lost/ "The terrors of the charging host;/ "for not an eye the storm that view'd/ "Changed its proud glance of fortitude.""
Mount: lower centre, pen (later Witt inscription): "JOHN HEAVISIDE CLARK"; upper right, stamped (later Witt inscription): "WITT / LIBRARY"; upper centre, pencil (later Witt inscription): "924/62(9a)"
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