Guide to the model of the Battle of Waterloo, now exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
24/875
Imprint
[s.l.]: Printed by P. Dixon Hardy, [n.d.]
Physical Description
16 p., 1 plate (folded): plan; 210 mm.
General Note
Folded plate entitled: Waterloo at 1/4 past 7 P.M.
Philip Dixon Hardy was a printer and publisher in Dublin. It is probable, therefore, that this pamphlet was published in Dublin, but is not clear whether Hardy wrote this work. It could also have been written by the man who researched and built the model, Captain William Siborne. The model was completed by him in Ireland in 1838 and shipped to England for public display in the Egyptian Hall in London where 100,000 people visited - but the admissions did not cover Siborne's expenses of research and construction. The model was returned to Ireland in 1841 and put into storage. It is now in the National Army Museum, London.
Provenance
Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (14) in vol. I of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
Binding Note
In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / I'.
Subject
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 Models - Military miniatures