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• Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2012645362
• Image download: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/38500/38550v.jpg
• Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012645362/

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• William Edward West had been an itinerant portrait painter, who had moved from Philadelphia to New Orleans, where he created this image in 1817.
• Key: (1) Major Genl. Sir E. Packenham shot, (2) Major M'Dougall aid de camp, (3) Major General Lambert, (4) Ensign bearing the British Flag, (5 or 6) H.T. Shaw Brigade Major wounded, (7) Major General Keane, (8) Coll. Blakeney Comr. of the Fusiliers, (9) Staff doctor, (10) Captain of the Regulars, (11) Sir E. Packenhams horse, (12) Genl. Gibbs mortally wounded, (13) Colonel Thornton, (14) American battery.
• In this impression the soldier identified as (5) is unlettered on the version that includes the key and here (6) is the horse without the soldier that corresponds to (E).
• Library has two impressions of this version, one hand-colored and numbered, and one b&w and unnumbered. These two impressions differ from a third variant version that is b&w, includes lettered features and corresponding key, and has more dead or wounded soldiers on the ground.