‘Part of the village of Mont St Jean’, 1815
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.
Mont-Saint-Jean is a hamlet on a road junction south of the Waterloo battlefield. Mont-Saint-Jean Farm was the site of a large field hospital during and after the Battle of Waterloo on the 18 June 1815. This print shows an artillery park with a veteran with a crutch looking on.
Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).