File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – L'Arbre Picton.jpg

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18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Picton's Tree

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English: Picton's Tree is believed to be close to the fatal spot where Lt General Picton was shot dead on 18 June 1815, a tree that emerged from the bloody fight trimmed to its trunk and a few branches, a tree that didn't survive the battle long : in the 1840's, it was depicted as a dead trunck. It would have stood inside today's small unkept grove to the north of the Hanoverian Monument and to the east of the N.5 road, at about (50.6795, 4.4133).

Picton's Tree has long gone.

Monuments shown, ca. 1840, from right to left :
built in 1817, the Monument Gordon : ►(File:Monument_Gordon_1815.jpg),
built in 1818 : the Hanoverian Memorial ►(File:18_June_1815_–_Victory_at_Waterloo_–_Hanoverian_Monument,_The_South_Face.jpg), and
built from 1823 to 1826 : the Lion's Mound' : ►(File:18_June_1815_–_Victory_at_Waterloo,_memorial.jpg).

The scene depicts tourists, called pilgrims at that time, visiting the Battlefield of Waterloo. A slightly less finely defined version, by H. Gérard (fl.1835 – 1861), ►(File:L'arbre_Picton,_à_Waterloo_(BM_1936,0421.11).jpg), reproduces the same scene where the visitors are distributed differently, an usual practice to meet different needs and tastes.

Iconography : Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (see Source hereunder).
Date between 1830 and 1850
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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boom-van-picton-edouard-henri-th%C3%A9ophile-pingret-jobard-fr%C2%ACres/RwGjkdDgv6Q23A — Google Arts & Culture

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Author
Édouard Pingret  (1785–1869)  wikidata:Q274426
 
Édouard Pingret
Alternative names
Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret
Description French painter, lithographer and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 30 December 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 3 July 1869 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Saint-Quentin Saint-Quentin
Work location
Mexico City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q274426

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