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Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy

by Richard James Lane, printed by Jérémie Graf, published by John Mitchell, after Alfred Edward Chalon
lithograph, late 1840s
20 7/8 in. x 14 5/8 in. (531 mm x 370 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D40273

Sitterback to top

Artistsback to top

  • Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860), Portrait and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 180 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
  • Jérémie Graf (active 1837-1842), Lithographic printer. Artist or producer associated with 113 portraits.
  • Richard James Lane (1800-1872), Sculptor and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 1226 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
  • John Mitchell (active 1832-died 1889), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 206 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D40271: Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (from same stone)
  • NPG D40272: Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (from same stone)
  • NPG D40274: Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (from same stone)

Placesback to top

  • Place made: France (33 Old Bond Street, London)
  • Place made: France (Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, France)

Events of 1847back to top

Current affairs

The 10 Hours Factory Act passed, regulating working hours for women and children under the age of eighteen to a maximum of ten hours a day.
The Communist League is founded in London, and drew up a set of rules and aims, including overthrowing the bourgeoisie and empowering the Proleteriat, and ending class division, forming the basis of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto (1848).}
Death and emigration resulting from starvation, plague and disease during worst year of the Great Famine in Ireland, known as Black 47.

Art and science

A good year for novels: Emily Bronte's passionate, rebellious and gothic Wuthering Heightsis published, followed shortly by her sister Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre, a story of a governess's struggle for liberty from social and gender constrictions. Drawing on a similar vein of revolution and rebellious women, William Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair is serialised.

International


The Don Pacifico affair sparks an international incident, when the Jewish trader's business was burned in an anti-semitic attack in Athens. When the Greek government refused to compensate him, Gibraltar-born Pacifico appealed to the British government. Foreign Minister Palmerston sent a squadron into the Aegean in 1850 to seize goods of the equivalent value, leading to strained relations with Turkey and Russia, and heated debates in Parliament.

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