Description of the field of battle, and dispostion of the troops engaged in the action, fought on the 18th of June, 1815, near Waterloo; illustrative of the representation of that great extent in the Panorama, Leicester-Square.
Folded plate entitled: Explanation Of the Battle of Waterloo.
The panorama was painted from drawings taken on the spot by Henry Aston Barker with figures composed and painted by John Burnet.
Bound with this pamphlet is 'Proposals, by Messrs. Boydell and Co. for publishing a national print of The Battle of Waterloo; dedicated, by most gracious permission, to His Royal Highness, The Prince Regent.', dated London 1815 (2 p., printed by J. Adlard).
Provenance
Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55)
Bound (29) in vol. I of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
Binding Note
In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / I'.