The Decisive Charge of the Life Guards at Waterloo.

Engraved and hand-coloured c.1860 by Thomas H. Sherratt, after painting by Luke Clennell, completed in 1816.

A decorative vignette around the engraving includes scenes of Napoleon at Waterloo, and Wellington at Waterloo.

Printed area (image as on the main picture) measures:

Extra Large poster (or Canvas) 23.7x34.7  inch / 60.3x88.2  cm (approx. same sheet size)

Large poster (or Canvas)  16.2x23.7 inch /  41.2x60.3 cm (approx. same sheet size)

Medium poster (or Canvas) 11.3x16.5 inch / 28.7x42.0 cm (sheet size no less than A3 / 11.7x16.5 inch)

Small poster 8.0x11.7 inch / 20.3x 29.7 cm (sheet size no less than A4 / 8.3x11.7)

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Luke Clennell (1781 - 1840) was a British painter and engraver. He was born in Northumberland, a son of a farmer. Extraordinarily talented, he became an apprentice to engraver Thomas Bewick in 1797 and then moved to London in 1804, and gave up engraving for painting. Clennell was one of the thirteen artists submitting works to the British Gallery in January 1816 for a competition by the British Institution for the best sketches connected with recent victories of the British Army, with the prize of one thousand guineas. Clennell has won one of the awards for his picture entitled The Decisive Charge of the Life Guards at Waterloo. In 1814 he has received a commission for a large painting at the Guildhall, London, which required to paint over 400 hundred persons of nobility. The difficulty of this work led Clennell to a mental breakdown and time in mental asylum. After an attempt to resume work on the same painting later, Clennell has suffered severe depression, became unable to paint, and died in Newcastle asylum.  

Thomas H. Sherratt was a British engraver of portraits and historical subjects, and was active in London, in around 1850 - 1865.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This poster is a high quality "giclee" reproduction of a restored antique original, custom-printed on Standard Single-weight Matt Coated art paper 140gsm or  Heavyweight Matt Coated art paper 230gsm (more of a thin card density), or superb Epson Matt Canvas 320gsm, according to your choice. We use the latest UltraChromeHDX pigment inks which guarantee 60 years of colour  permanence (up to 200 years fade-proof for colour prints).  This poster is suitable for mounting and framing, as well as direct display on a wall.

IMPORTANT: If you are going to frame this print we recommend art paper 230gsm or canvas 320gsm. The 140gsm art paper option makes sense if you wish to DIY-frame or to tack the poster to a wall without framing, due to it being lighter and more flexible. All three options are giclee prints of the same high quality.

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