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Rachael

by Firmin Salabert, printed by Day & Haghe, published by Henry Graves & Co
lithograph, published 26 May 1841
17 1/2 in. x 13 1/2 in. (446 mm x 342 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D39158

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  • Rachael, of Covent Garden. Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • Day & Haghe (active 1833-1845), Lithographers. Artist or producer associated with 47 portraits.
  • Henry Graves & Co (active 1844-1899), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 257 portraits.
  • Firmin Salabert (1811-1895), Painter and pastellist. Artist or producer associated with 7 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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