Robert Hills (1769–1844)
Sketches in Flanders and Holland: with some account of a tour through parts of those countries, shortly after the battle of Waterloo; in a series of letters to a friend
London: printed by J. Haines and J. Turner, 1816
E.31.9, plate VIII

Hills, a founder member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, visited the battlefield on 22 July 1815, and the following year produced this volume as ‘a faithful picture of the Low Countries, immediately subsequent to a most eventful period of their history’. The outlines of the plates were etched by Hills and aquatinted by a variety of engravers; J. Hill was responsible for tinting this plate, the compartments of which show (from top to bottom) ‘Entrance to the village of [Mont] St Jean’, ‘First glimpse of the field of battle, from St Jean’ and ‘Back of La Haye Sainte, from the Brussels road’.