Orme, Edward:: Death of Sir Thomas Picton

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Orme, Edward: : Death of Sir Thomas Picton

Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 32.5 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Atkinson, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.

Picton, the senior allied casualty at Waterloo, was indeed shot through the temple as depicted here. However, the unconventional and irascible general was entirely dressed in civilian clothes, sporting a top hat rather than a bicorn., Abbey: Life, 376.

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