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'A Sketch in the Park' (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Harriet Arbuthnot (née Fane))

3 of 3 portraits of Harriet Arbuthnot (née Fane)

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'A Sketch in the Park' (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Harriet Arbuthnot (née Fane))

published by Thomas McLean, after Unknown artist
lithograph, published 27 July 1834
11 3/8 in. x 8 1/8 in. (288 mm x 207 mm) paper size
Given by Henry Witte Martin, 1861
Reference Collection
NPG D7604

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  • Thomas McLean (1788-1875), Publisher and dealer. Artist or producer associated with 1058 portraits.
  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.

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Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).
Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.

Art and science

Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.

International

Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.
Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.

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