The Field of Waterloo / Le Champ de Bataille de Waterloo

Location

Country: Gibraltar
City: Gibraltar
Place: Governor's Residence, The Convent

John Heaviside Clark worked as an engraver, book illustrator and a landscape and marine painter. He was born in Scotland, but worked in London from 1802 to 1832. Clark exhibited his works, mainly maritime and landscape subjects, at the Royal Academy from 1812 to 1832. He was known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ as a result of the many sketches he made of the scene immediately after the conclusion of the Battle of Waterloo. Publications illustrated by Clark include ‘Field Sports Etc. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales’ (1813) and ‘Practical Illustration of Gilpin’s Day’ (1824). He died in Edinburgh in October 1863. Examples of his work can be found at Glasgow Art Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and Maidstone Museum.
Matthew Dubourg was a London-based aquatint engraver of sporting, military and topographical views, made after works by contemporary artists. He often collaborated with the draughtsman and aquatint engraver John Clark. Dubourg exhibited two miniature portraits at the Royal Academy in 1786 and 1797, when his address was 17 Duke Street, off Manchester Square. He later exhibited a ‘Scene near Vauxhall’ at the Academy in 1808, by which time he had moved to 22 East Street, Lambeth.

Places

Belgium

Subjects

rest/sleep, topography, tree, evening, horse, smoke, boy, man, kilt, coat of arms, death, musket, soldier, Napoleonic Wars, Battle of Waterloo, house

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

John Heaviside Clark (c.1771 - 1863)
Matthew Dubourg

Title

The Field of Waterloo / Le Champ de Bataille de Waterloo

Date

published 18 January 1817

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 45.50 cm, width: 74.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 12 February 1980

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 12 February 1980 (Lot 122); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

14945