Jun 30, 2017
Victories of the Duke of Wellington from Drawings by R Westall RA London Printed for Rodwell and Martin New Bond Street 1819 First Edition
This book contains a series of 12 fine hand coloured aquatint engravings of battle scenes from the Peninsular War and Waterloo intended ‘to recal[l] the exultations which each triumph produced, by a representation of the decisive moment that occasioned it’. The image for Waterloo shows the point when, after eight hours of defensive fighting, ‘the approach of the Prussians on the left of the British line determined the Duke of Wellington to be in his turn the assailant’ and to order the general advance of the Allied line. Westall’s drawings were engraved by Theodore Henry Fielding.