William Mudford (1782–1848)
An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher…
London: H. Colburn, 1817
Lib.3.81.21, Plate XXI (T)

This view by James Rouse is described as showing ‘The village of Genappe, where Napoleon’s carriage was captured by a Prussian detachment. The farm at Les Quatre Bras is seen on the top of the hill, on the right.’ The carriage is depicted in the foreground, being drawn back in the direction of Waterloo by four horses rather than six: the leading pair had been killed during the capture of the vehicle. Following the carriage is a group of uniformed but unarmed men on foot, probably French prisoners being led into captivity.

Mudford’s Historical account contains a series of twenty-four engravings by Rouse, mainly after his own drawings but including three after drawings by C. C. Hamilton. ‘These Plates’, a prefatory note explained, ‘illustrate not merely the field of battle, but all the intermediate country from Brussels to Charleroi, proceeding in regular succession: so that the reader may, as it were, actually walk over the ground which our army trod’.