Robert Bower - The Campaign of Waterloo
"The Campaign of Waterloo, illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of action; including a correct military plan, together with a grand view of the battle on a large scale. To which is prefixed a history of the Campaign, compiled from official documents and other authentic sources”
Consisting of a magnificent, large double page hand-coloured aquatint of the battle. One full-page hand-coloured aquatint of the town of Waterloo. Two full-page hand-coloured aquatints, each containing two engravings, showing Les Quatre-Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougomont and La Haye Sainte. Two full-page engravings of portraits of leaders on both sides, a full-page map of the battleground and wood-engraved view of St. Helena
Folio 48×34cm inches. Some restoration, modern binding with marbled boards and calf leather spine. Title page has prior tearing and evidence of damp, conserved with Japanese washi paper. Minor staining to corners throughout with replacement modern label to front pub. T. Bensley & Son, for Robert Bowyer, London, 1816
Robert Bowyer (1758–1834) began his artistic career as a painter of portrait miniatures, and included Lord Nelson among his patrons. In the 1790s he diversified into print publishing, known for the ambitious scale of the projects.
The artist of the original drawings for the plates in this large-format volume of The campaign of Waterloo is not named, but appears to have visited the site in the weeks following the battle. Bowyer acknowledged an obligation to Captain Wildman, an aide-de-camp to the Marquess of Anglesea (the former Earl of Uxbridge, Wellington’s cavalry commander at Waterloo), for the ‘accuracy and fidelity’ of the ‘grand view of the battle’ which forms the centrepiece of the volume
"The Campaign of Waterloo, illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of action; including a correct military plan, together with a grand view of the battle on a large scale. To which is prefixed a history of the Campaign, compiled from official documents and other authentic sources”
Consisting of a magnificent, large double page hand-coloured aquatint of the battle. One full-page hand-coloured aquatint of the town of Waterloo. Two full-page hand-coloured aquatints, each containing two engravings, showing Les Quatre-Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougomont and La Haye Sainte. Two full-page engravings of portraits of leaders on both sides, a full-page map of the battleground and wood-engraved view of St. Helena
Folio 48×34cm inches. Some restoration, modern binding with marbled boards and calf leather spine. Title page has prior tearing and evidence of damp, conserved with Japanese washi paper. Minor staining to corners throughout with replacement modern label to front pub. T. Bensley & Son, for Robert Bowyer, London, 1816
Robert Bowyer (1758–1834) began his artistic career as a painter of portrait miniatures, and included Lord Nelson among his patrons. In the 1790s he diversified into print publishing, known for the ambitious scale of the projects.
The artist of the original drawings for the plates in this large-format volume of The campaign of Waterloo is not named, but appears to have visited the site in the weeks following the battle. Bowyer acknowledged an obligation to Captain Wildman, an aide-de-camp to the Marquess of Anglesea (the former Earl of Uxbridge, Wellington’s cavalry commander at Waterloo), for the ‘accuracy and fidelity’ of the ‘grand view of the battle’ which forms the centrepiece of the volume
"The Campaign of Waterloo, illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of action; including a correct military plan, together with a grand view of the battle on a large scale. To which is prefixed a history of the Campaign, compiled from official documents and other authentic sources”
Consisting of a magnificent, large double page hand-coloured aquatint of the battle. One full-page hand-coloured aquatint of the town of Waterloo. Two full-page hand-coloured aquatints, each containing two engravings, showing Les Quatre-Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougomont and La Haye Sainte. Two full-page engravings of portraits of leaders on both sides, a full-page map of the battleground and wood-engraved view of St. Helena
Folio 48×34cm inches. Some restoration, modern binding with marbled boards and calf leather spine. Title page has prior tearing and evidence of damp, conserved with Japanese washi paper. Minor staining to corners throughout with replacement modern label to front pub. T. Bensley & Son, for Robert Bowyer, London, 1816
Robert Bowyer (1758–1834) began his artistic career as a painter of portrait miniatures, and included Lord Nelson among his patrons. In the 1790s he diversified into print publishing, known for the ambitious scale of the projects.
The artist of the original drawings for the plates in this large-format volume of The campaign of Waterloo is not named, but appears to have visited the site in the weeks following the battle. Bowyer acknowledged an obligation to Captain Wildman, an aide-de-camp to the Marquess of Anglesea (the former Earl of Uxbridge, Wellington’s cavalry commander at Waterloo), for the ‘accuracy and fidelity’ of the ‘grand view of the battle’ which forms the centrepiece of the volume