Orme, Edward:: Prince Blucher under his horse at the Battle of Waterloo

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Orme, Edward: : Prince Blucher under his horse at the Battle of Waterloo

Aquatint with original colour, 25 x 34 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.

Blucher’s horse was shot from under him at Ligny, three days before Waterloo, trapping the 72 year old commander of the Prussian forces beneath the weight of its body. Blucher was forced to play dead while French cavalry searched for survivors., Abbey: Life, 376.

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