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Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
2 of 2 portraits by Longman, Hurst & Co
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Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
by William Thomas Fry, published by Longman, Hurst & Co, published by Hurst, Robinson & Co, after Richard Banks Harraden
stipple engraving, published 2 August 1819
13 in. x 8 3/4 in. (329 mm x 223 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D20347
Sitterback to top
- Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443-1509), Mother of Henry VII. Sitter associated with 20 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- William Thomas Fry (1789-1843), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 62 portraits.
- Richard Banks Harraden (1778-1862), Topographical draughtsman and printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
- Hurst, Robinson & Co (active 1824-1825), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 21 portraits.
- Longman, Hurst & Co (active circa 1811-1819), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Paternoster Row, London; Cheapside, London)
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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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