Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

by Henry Thomas Ryall, printed by McQueen (Macqueen), published by Colnaghi and Puckle, after Henry Perronet Briggs
mezzotint, published 6 September 1841
21 7/8 in. x 16 in. (557 mm x 407 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1958
Reference Collection
NPG D37595

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  • Henry Perronet Briggs (1791-1844), Antiquary and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 54 portraits.
  • Colnaghi and Puckle (active 1839-1845), Printsellers and publishers. Artist or producer associated with 56 portraits.
  • McQueen (Macqueen) (active 1819-1872), Printers. Artist or producer associated with 72 portraits.
  • Henry Thomas Ryall (1811-1867), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 53 portraits.

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Current affairs

Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.

Art and science

Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.
William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.

International

Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

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