Allegory of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, Adrianus Gerardus van Schoone, 1817, Allegory of the victory of the allies at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Four soldiers stand at the altar of peace, they are a Prussian and a Dutchman, joined by a Briton or Scotsman and a Hanoverian or Brunswick. The Dutchman points to a column on the right on which are the arms of the allies and a depiction of the capture of Napoleon's traveling carriage. From the clouds, Peace looks on with a horn of plenty. In the foreground symbols of trade and the arts. In the caption a four-line verse. See also the

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