Etching by <b>William Miller</b> (1796-1882), reproducing a (privately owned) 1817/1818 watercolour by <b>J. M. William Turner</b> (1775-1851), based on sketches he made during a one-day stay at Waterloo in 1817. 
<p>Quite surely wouldn't one expect J. M. W. Turner to record every minute details he had observed.  Nevertheless, there is no mistaking in recognizing <i><b>La Haye Sainte Farm</b></i> seen from the North-East, precisely from the remnant of the <i>Picton Tree</i>. <br>
As to the state of the tree, a <i>ca.</i> 1840 etching  ►(<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18_June_1815_%E2%80%93_Waterloo_%E2%80%93_L%27Arbre_Picton.jpg" title="File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – L'Arbre Picton.jpg">File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – L'Arbre Picton.jpg</a>) is certainly closer to reality.  Incidentally, the southwards (right to left) downhill slope of the road (future N.5) is exaggerated, and, beyond the farm, the road is level in real. <br></p><p>Far more importantly, J. M. W. Turner renders his perception of the battlefield, when still bare – the first monuments were to be built in 1817, 1818, and 1924-26 on and around the 18 June 1815 main Allied firing line – all three shown on the etching mentioned here-above.
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In the valley, on this side of the road, about <b>4000 soldiers, all victims of that single 18 June 1815 combat for <i>La Haye Sainte</i>, rest in a common grave – but no stele, nothing recalls them.</b>  <br> Most information is confined to ancient documents : ►(<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate_L_from_%27An_Historical_Account_of_the_Campaign_in_the_Netherlands%27_by_William_Mudford_(1817).jpg" title="File:Plate L from 'An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands' by William Mudford (1817).jpg">File:Plate L from 'An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands' by William Mudford (1817).jpg</a>).
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