FDA-E.1901-2015
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1901-2015
Object type
Identification
Title
Wellington at Waterloo word grid
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 507mm
width (actual size): 308mm
width (actual size): 308mm
Inscription
Lettered 'Begin at the centre letter 'W', and it will form the words / Wellington at Waterloo, / and may be read, 350, different ways, / Transcendent Peer High Boast of George's Reign / as first of Heroes, and as Best of Men', 'Wellington at Waterloo / 18th June 1815'
Lettered with poem beneath the word grid:
'Brothers in Arms, My Comrades and my Friends, / This Awful Scene your Chieftan's Bosom rends; / For many an Orphan's cry, and Widow's moan / What Martial Fame, what Trophies can Atone, / None,)' Till our foes lay Prostrate at our feet, / Till then, Brave Men our work is incomplete / To Paris then, with social Bands repair, / And plant the injured Bourbon's Stranded there; / Hunt down the Monster, to his very den, / And crush the curse of Kingdoms and of Men, / All Europe's Wrongs, the dying and the Dead / Cry loud for Vengeance on the Miscreant's Head, / No,)', More his Iron Sway shall Nations Rue, / But caress the Glorious day of Waterloo.'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse '1821', '13041', 'B/C 280'
Lettered with poem beneath the word grid:
'Brothers in Arms, My Comrades and my Friends, / This Awful Scene your Chieftan's Bosom rends; / For many an Orphan's cry, and Widow's moan / What Martial Fame, what Trophies can Atone, / None,)' Till our foes lay Prostrate at our feet, / Till then, Brave Men our work is incomplete / To Paris then, with social Bands repair, / And plant the injured Bourbon's Stranded there; / Hunt down the Monster, to his very den, / And crush the curse of Kingdoms and of Men, / All Europe's Wrongs, the dying and the Dead / Cry loud for Vengeance on the Miscreant's Head, / No,)', More his Iron Sway shall Nations Rue, / But caress the Glorious day of Waterloo.'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse '1821', '13041', 'B/C 280'
Inscription description
Watermarked 'J Whatman 1821'
Production
Person
Date
c.1821
History and association
Previous ownership
Grosvenor Printing Works: Bought by Eton College Collections from Grosvenor Prints, January 2015
