NAM.1989-06-76-1

A Guardsman, 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, 1815. Bronze statuette, designed by Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890), made by Elkington and Company, 1888. Full length, in marching order, with hands clasped in front and musket butt resting on ground; a miniature of one of the four figures decorating the corners of the plinth of the of the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. There is a separate stepped plinth which has become detached from the original sculpture.

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