Map of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 (Waterloo, Walloon Region, Belgium) 50°42'45"N 04°24'05"E

James Jenkins (active 1812-1825) (publisher) [bottom centre, below title:] London. Pub=^d Sept.^r 1.^st for J-JENKINS’S Martial Achievements, at N^o 48, Strand.

William Heath (1794-1840) (artist) [bottom left, below edge of view:] Painted by W. Heath from a Drawing made on the Spot.

Thomas Sutherland (1785-1838) (engraver) [bottom right, below edge of view:] Engraved by T. Sutherland.

George IV, King of the United Kingdom (1762-1830) (dedicatee)

Subject(s)

Watermark: J WHATMAN / 1811

Condition: no fold lines

33.4 x 49.8 cm (neatline)

36.4 x 49.8 cm (image)

39.9 x 55.6 cm (platemark)

42.2 x 58.2 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, JUNE 18.^TH 1815. [bottom, below view, to each side of a vignette depicting, perhaps, the meeting of Wellington and Blucher?]

Dedication:

[bottom, below title:] Dedicated to H,,R,, Highness the Prince Regent of Great Britain by His Royal Highness's most Devoted & Obed,,^t Hum,,^ble Serv,,^t / Ja,,^s Jenkins.

Annotations:

(Recto) [bottom right, following engraver’s name, black pencil:] 36; [bottom left, black pencil, in Evelyn Heaton-Smith’s hand?:] XV-190a. (Verso) [top right, black pencil:] 36.

George III catalogue entry:

Waterloo View of the Battle of Waterloo, June 18.^th 1815: by W.^m Heath, engraved by Sutherland, and published by Jenkins, 1815; with an Index Plate and a Copy of the Gazette containing an account of the Battle.

Bibliographic reference(s)

C. de W. Crookshank, Prints of British Military Operations: a cat. raisonné with historical descriptions covering the period from...Abyssinia, London, 1922, no.