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Turner's Holland is not as we know it today. Then it was The Kingdom of the United Netherlands, until 1839. The Kingdom included Luxemburg and Belgium which embraced the battlefield of Waterloo.
The Field of Waterloo 1818 147 x 238 cm Tate Gallery
Turner made a tour of Holland in 1817 in order to go to the battlefield and made sketches 2 of 19 as below
1.Turner sketches 2.
1. Causeway leading to the inn of Belle Aliance and the farm of Haye Sainte
2. General view of Hugomont from the British lines

Field of Waterloo, engraving on steel by W. Miller,1835, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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