Humphrey Wanley

1 portrait by Abraham Wivell

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Humphrey Wanley

by Abraham Wivell, after Thomas Hill
mezzotint, 1819
6 1/2 in. x 4 1/4 in. (164 mm x 107 mm) plate size; 6 3/4 in. x 4 5/8 in. (171 mm x 119 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1964
Reference Collection
NPG D4623

Sitterback to top

  • Humphrey Wanley (1672-1726), Librarian and antiquary. Sitter in 8 portraits.

Artistsback to top

  • Thomas Hill (1661-1734), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
  • Abraham Wivell (1786-1849), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 76 portraits.

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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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