'Farme du Gourman from the Right', Chateau de Hougoumont, 1815

Sepia watercolour over pencil on paper by Denis Dighton (1792-1827), signed lower right, 'Denis Dighton del/ MP. to his. RH.PR' [Military Painter to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent], 1815. Number 9 from a series of nine landscape views of the battlefield of Waterloo, painted shortly after the decisive battle.

A view of the loop-holed walls of the Chateau de Hougoumont, with human remains in the foreground. The chateau was a strongpoint in the Allied line during the Battle of Waterloo and was the site of bitter fighting throughout the 18 June 1815.