The Pilot Lost and the National Steamboat in Danger
1 portrait of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
The Pilot Lost and the National Steamboat in Danger
by Charles Williams, published by Samuel Knight (Knights)
hand-coloured etching, published August 1827
9 3/4 in. x 13 7/8 in. (249 mm x 351 mm) plate size; 10 3/4 in. x 15 3/8 in. (272 mm x 392 mm) overall
Given by Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, 2015
Reference Collection
NPG D46027
Artistsback to top
- Samuel Knight (Knights) (active 1805-1841), Publisher and etcher of satirical print. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
- Charles Williams (active 1797-1830), Etcher. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762-1834), Statesman. Sitter associated with 21 portraits.
- Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley (1766-1851), Conservative politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sitter in 26 portraits.
- John Bull (active 1712-present), Fictitious epitomist of Englishness and British imperialism. Sitter associated with 151 portraits. Identify
- John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), Lord Chancellor. Sitter in 142 portraits. Identify
- King George IV (1762-1830), Regent 1811-19; Reigned 1820-30. Sitter associated with 274 portraits. Identify
- Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), Statesman. Sitter associated with 19 portraits.
- Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt (1788-1850), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 323 portraits.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Field Marshal and Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 640 portraits. Identify
- John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759-1841), Politician; Lord Privy Seal. Sitter associated with 32 portraits. Identify
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London)
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Events of 1827back to top
Current affairs
Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.Art and science
University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.International
Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.
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