NAM.1973-12-23-1

Statuette of a Private, 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment, 1815 (c). One of a pair. Silver plate, signed at bottom right ‘J E BOEHM SC.R.’, by Joseph Edgar Boehm, made by Elkington and Company, 1890 (c). Full length, in kilt and sporran, his musket (with broken bayonet) resting on the ground before him; on ebonised wood plinth. A small scale model of one of the four supporting soldiers (representing England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) beside the plinth to Boehm’s equestrian bronze of the Duke of Wellington, at Hyde Park Corner, opposite Apsley House, which was unveiled in 1888.

Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)