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WOODVILLE, Richard Caton, Jr. [1856-1927] (After). JACQUET, Jules [1841-1913] (Engraver).. [Napoleon with his Old Guard at the Battle of Waterloo 1815].
signed by Woodville & Jacquet. signed 'R.Caton Woodville [18]95' in plate, lower left margin. vignette bust portraits of von Blücher and Wellington lower left, & remarque of imperial eagle lower right. 21 ¼ x 35 ¼ inches (54.5 x 89.8 cm., entire sheet). etching (margins damaged as a result of previous framing -- no loss). Richard Caton Woodville II was a British artist who specialized in battle scene paintings. This detailed depiction of the Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815, shows cavalry and infantry positions, and Napoleon on horseback in the middleground. Napoleon was defeated in the engagement by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, commanded by the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher. Napoleon abdicated four days later, and the Napoleonic Wars and the First French Empire came to an end.
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