Turner exhibited this watercolour, with Lake of Lucerne, at the Royal Academy in 1815 to represent war and peace. Turner thought the war was over, but Napoleon returned from exile and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June, during the exhibition.The watercolour is set in the Alps. It imagines a battle during the French invasion of northern Italy in 1796. As well as the fighting, Turner shows a man and a woman tending a dead or dying soldier who has fallen off the road. In the other watercolour shown in 1815, a similar-looking young woman is weeping.