Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Inscriptionback to top

Incised on the back, below the shoulders: R^t HON VISCOUNT PALMERSTON K. G./E. W. WYON Sc.

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One of a fairly large edition of commemorative parian-ware busts. According to W. A. Billington of the Wedgwood Museum (letter of 14 February 1967, NPG archives), Wyon's model was certainly finished by the early part of 1866.

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Purchased from Mrs Margaret Harwood, 1967.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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