The Village of Waterloo is an 1821 history painting by the English artist George Jones.[1][2] It has the longer subtitle With Travellers Purchasing the Relics That Were Found in the Field of Battle, 1815
| The Village of Waterloo | |
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| Artist | George Jones |
| Year | 1821 |
| Type | Oil on panel, history painting |
| Dimensions | 49.5 cm × 62.1 cm (19.5 in × 24.4 in) |
| Location | National Army Museum, London |
It shows a scene in the village of Waterloo In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo during the Hundred Days campaign. Villagers are selling souvenirs of the campaign to a Highland soldier and tourists who have arrived by coach from Brussels. Meanwhile, a Prussian offers items to a mounted hussar. All have presumably been looted from corpses on the battlefield. Meanwhile, a cart filled with redcoated British bodies can be seen on the left while a group of lancers on horseback are clustered around an inn on the right.[3]
Jones, a captain in the militia, visited the scene soon after the battle and made sketches. The battlefield became a major tourist destination over subsequent decades.[4] It was part of cluster of paintings depicting the Waterloo Campaign produced around this time including David Wilkie's Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch [5] Today it is in the collection of the National Army Museum in London.[3]
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