‘Edge of the Foret de Soigne’, 1815 (c)..
Coloured aquatint by James Rouse, published by H Colburn, Conduit Street, London 1816. One of a series of aquatints, illustrations to ‘An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo’, 1817.
Shows road with trees on either side and some houses, men digging and burying dead horses.
A tree-lined road with men burying dead horses. The Sonian Forest is located on the south-east edge of Brussels. After the Battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington was gifted rights over a portion of the forest close to the battlefield of Waterloo.
Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).