Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
1 portrait by Robert Cribb
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
by Robert William Sievier, published by Robert Cribb, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, published 4 June 1819
20 7/8 in. x 15 3/4 in. (531 mm x 400 mm) paper size
Given by Society of Judges and Serjeants-at-Law, 1877
Reference Collection
NPG D36144
Sitterback to top
- Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750-1818), Lord Chief Justice. Sitter in 20 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Robert Cribb (1755-1827), Framemaker, carver, gilder, printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 22 portraits.
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.
- Robert William Sievier (1794-1865), Engraver, sculptor and scientist. Artist or producer associated with 16 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (34 Southampton Row, Russell Square, London; 288 Holborn, London)
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Events of 1819back to top
Current affairs
Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.
Art and science
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.
International
Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.
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