Individually and collectively, the essays in this cross-disciplinary collection explore the impact of the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on European visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Introduction. Contested Views: the Image in the First Total War Satish Padiyar, Philip Shaw, Philippa SimpsonPart One: Cultures of Participation The Territorial Imaginary of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Katie Hornstein Beholder, Beheaded: Theatrics of the Guillotine and the Spectacle of Rupture Stephanie O’Rourke Smuggled Silhouettes: Opacity and Transparency as Visual Strategies for Negotiating Royal Sovereignty During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Allison Goudie Wargaming: Visualizing Conflict in French Printed Boardgames Richard Taws Battle Lines: Drawing, Lithography and the Casualties of War Sue Walker Part Two: War and the Image From the Nore: Turner at the Mouth of the Thames Richard Johns Ghosts and Heroes: Girodet and the Ossianic Mode in Post-Revolutionary French Art Emma Barker King Ferdinand’s Veto: Goya’s 2nd and 3rd May 1808 as Patriotic Failures Simon Lee "the most atrocious [acts] one may imagine": The So-called Series of the French Invasions and Anti-French Propaganda During the Peninsular War Foteini Vlachou The Comic View of Johnny Newcome’s Military Adventures Neil Ramsey Part Three: Cultures of Commemoration Reality Effects: War, Theatre and Re-enactment Around 1800 Gillian Russell Ephemeral Histories: Social Commemoration of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Paper Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks Arlene Leis Exhibiting the Nation’s Navy: The Foundation of the "National Gallery of Naval Art," 1795- 1845 Cicely Robinson Picturing the Battlefield of Victory: Document, Drama, ImageSusan L. Siegfried

"Importantly, the book is supported by a generous number of illustrations (including some fullpage), which will prove useful in the classroom. While it is often all too easy to rely on Googleto help us reconstruct the visual worlds of the past, Visual Culture and the Revolutionary andNapoleonic Wars reminds us how much remarkable material is still sitting neglected in thearchives. Flaming cardboard globes, board games, and exhibition tickets are the types of sourcesthat, until recently, might have been relegated to the footnotes or overlooked altogether, but asthis volume proves, they are crucial for introducing us to the many, and often contested ways inwhich those who lived through the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods imagined andinterpreted their changing worlds. " - Gemma Betros, The Australian National University (H-France Review)