Coloured cartoon from the Glasgow Looking Glass 25 June 1825, advertising a grand Panorama of Waterloo at a rotunda theatre in Buchanan Street.
Panorama theatres became popular in Europe in the early 19th century, exhibiting vast panoramic views of far-off places and great events. The panorama of the famous Battle of Waterloo, at which a British and allied army defeated Napoleon in 1815, would have excited the curiosities of martially-minded patriots as well as those in search of spectacle.
Reference: Sp Coll Bh14-x.8
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections
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advertisements, Battle of Waterloo, Glasgow Looking Glass, Grand Panorama of Waterloo, highland dress, kilts, lithographs, Northern Looking Glass, panoramas, rotunda theatres, soldiers, women
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