Description
Oil on panel
Dimensions
43 x 63cm
Footnote
Note: The painting shows the encampment of the British army at the position of Mont St Jean on the evening of 17th June. Prominent features include the small cottage where the 1st battalion 95th rifles had made their HQ and looking along the ridge to the right of the painting a line of campfires showing the extent of the allied line. The painting features a number of vignettes including several highlanders butchering an animal. Regiments are quite distinctive and the artist has taken trouble to identify them by their uniforms. Among the most prominent are the Black Watch 42nd Foot and the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys. English line infantry are also present, along with light infantry with their distinctive green plumes. There is also an artilleryman visible to the right of the picture in blue and beyond him mounted a man of the Royal Horse Artillery. In the centre with the Greys, it is possible to make out other dragoon regiments in helmets, notably the Inniskillings. Officers are shown in discussion and in the centre a small party including one blue-coated staff officer, who may be intended to represent Wellington.