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PANORAMAS AT LEICESTER SQUARE -- Description of the Field of Battle near Waterloo ... in the Panorama, Leicester Square . [London?]: [s.n.], 1816. Folding plate. Bound with 11 other pamphlets, 9 describing a panorama on exhibition with short titles as follows: Badajoz, 1813. Folding plate; The Island of Elba , 1815. Vignette of Napoleon's flag on title; View of Rome , 1817; Venice , 1819. Folding plate; North Coast of Spitzbergen , 1819. Folding plate; Berne and the High Alps by H.A. Barker, 1821. 2 folding plates; Corfu , 1822; The Destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum by John Martin 1822. 3 plates, 2 folding; Coronation of George IV , 1823. 2 folding plates. The two others comprise a catalogue of the Museum Napoleon , 1817. One plate; and G.B. Belzoni's Description of the Egyptian Tomb , 1821. Folding map. Together 12 pamphlets in one volume, 8° (192 x 123mm). Original yellow wrappers (worn, rebacked in paper with printed label 'panorama' on spine). Panoramas were invented by the Irish painter Robert Barker (1793-1806) who constructed the first purpose-built panorama building in Leicester Square in 1793. After his patent expired in 1801, 360 degree panoramas by rival artists were painted and exhibited. The above volume demonstrates how the panorama continued to flourish in early 19th-century London, and provides evidence of the activities of the inventor's son, Henry Aston Barker who continued to operate the panorama or rotunda in Leicester Square. Sold not subject to return.