Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo by Ionic pilasters, and crowned with parapet with a frieze of palmettes. The entrance porch has two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment. The rotunda houses an oil-on-canvas painting completed by French artist Louis Dumoulin in 1912, with 14 canvas panels sewn together to create a cylinder approximately in circumference and high. It is lit from above by a ring of glazing around the edge of the conical roof and is viewed from a high platform at the centre of the rotunda. The painting depicts several different episodes from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, concentrating on charges
The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo Sister of Charity, and a tonsured priest delivering the last rites to a officer. In the background, a peasant woman is looting from the dead on the battlefield. In the background, the army is advancing along a road. The copyright was acquired by the Art Union of London in 1865, and Lumb Stocks made an engraving of the painting from photographs of the original. It was often sold with an engraving of the companion work, "The Death of Nelson". The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of