File:18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – The Waterloo Despatch.jpg
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English: Etching by Thomas Hodgetts, dated 1840, reproducing a painting from September 1839 by Lady Burghersh which depicts Arthur Wellesley, 1st Lord Wellington, beginning the redaction of the Waterloo Despatch in the early hours of June 19th, 1815. In the room en-suite, two officers mourn Colonel Alexander Gordon. This copy is preserved by The British Museum. The inscriptions at the foot of the frame read, from left to right :
Painted by Lady Burghersh |
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Source | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-0511-23 |
Author | © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. |
Bibliography, general : Thieme, U., Becker, F., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler : Bromley, Frederick (fl.1832-1870), Bd.5, 1911, 55 ; Hodgetts, Thomas (fl.1801-1846), Bd.17, 1924, 174 ; Westmorland, Priscilla [Lady Burghersh], Countess of (1793-1879), Bd.35, 1942, 455.
Bent's Monthly Literary Magazine, n°427, May 12, 1840, 77 ; n°430, August 10, 1840, 123 ; n° 437, February 10, 1841, 27.
Additional iconography :
- Etching by Fr. Bromley published by Welch & Gwynne, June 18th, 1840
http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/353968 ;
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136107772/view ;
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26360.
- Photograph by Hudson & Kearns, reproduced in Griffiths, A., Wellington & Waterloo, 1898, 239, most readily accessible at (https://archive.org/details/cu31924024320123/page/n253/mode/2up
- Woodcut by (unknown) published by The London Illustrated News, 1852, Nov. 20, 436,
most readily accessible via https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
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