[27a] Lion Mound #4, Waterloo, Belgium [front]

Creator

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Identifier

27a

Medium

carte-de-visite

Keywords

Lion Mound Monument; Waterloo, Belgium; Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Battlefields; history -- Europe -- Western; cartes-de-visite (card photographs);

Date of Publication

1860-80

Name of Monument

Lion Mound, Waterloo, Belgium

City of Monument

Waterloo

Country of Monument

Belgium

Description

A carte-de-visite historical photograph of the Lion’s Mound, a large conical artificial hill commemorating the battlefield of Waterloo fought on June 18, 1815. The mound was ordered by King William I of the Netherlands and construction was begun in 1820 and completed in 1826. A statue on a lion standing upon a stone-block pedestal surmounts the hill. Jean-Louis Van Geel (1787-1852) sculpted the model lion.

School of Art/Architecture

Neoclassical Sculpture

Comments

List of Selected Resources:

• Illustrated London News,"Duke of Wellington," Nov. 1852
• The Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes (1911)
• Belgium: The Land of Art; Its History...(1912)
• Handbook to Belgium and the Battlefields (1921)

Digital Date

1-19-2022

Copyright

Original physical carte-de-visite is in the public domain. Digital copy scanned by Rod Library, ©2022 Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa.

Rights Advisory

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Creative Commons License

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