The letter "W": Washington, Wagram, Waterloo
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in. (35.9 x 27.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
Accession Number
83.2.854
Tags
BirdsEaglesBattlesSoldiersCross
About the Artist
Victor Adam|Aubert et Cie|Charles Tilt|Bailly and Ward · 1801–1866
Victor Adam was born in Paris in 1801 and built a prolific and commercially successful career as one of the leading lithographers and illustrators of nineteenth-century France. He received a conventional academic training in painting, but it was the new medium of lithography — still in its first decades of widespread use when Adam came of age — that provided the ideal vehicle for his gifts: a faci...