Lady Charlotte Talbot (née Butler)

1 portrait by Edward Bull

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Lady Charlotte Talbot (née Butler)

by Thomas Anthony Dean, published by Edward Bull, after Andrew Morton
stipple engraving, published December 1832
10 in. x 6 7/8 in. (254 mm x 176 mm) plate size; 17 1/8 in. x 11 3/4 in. (435 mm x 299 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D32503

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  • Edward Bull (active circa 1800-1841), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 27 portraits.
  • Thomas Anthony Dean (1801-1860), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 66 portraits.
  • Andrew Morton (1802-1845), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 16 portraits.

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Current affairs

William IV agrees to the creation of new peers in order to obtain the passage of the Reform Act, although this proved unnecessary when the Tories withdrew opposition. Male franchise is extended by fifty percent; fifty-six 'rotten boroughs' lose representation and forty-one new constituencies are created. Irish and Scottish Reform Acts are also passed.

Art and science

Mathematician Charles Babbage publishes his best selling Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. In response to recent outbreaks of machine-breaking and riots, he aimed to reveal the sources of Britain's industrial strength to the urban elite and promote institutional change.
Parliament votes funds for National Gallery buildings in Trafalgar Square.

International

Free land grants end for English settlers in Australia on recommendation of the leading colonisation theorist Edward Wakefield in his Letter from Sydney.
Greek independence recognised by the Treaty of London.

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