'The Great Unknown and the Great Captain cutting up Napoleon the Great' (Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

1 portrait by John Fairburn

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'The Great Unknown and the Great Captain cutting up Napoleon the Great' (Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

by (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank, published by John Fairburn
hand-coloured etching, published July 1827
9 3/4 in. x 14 in. (247 mm x 355 mm) plate size; 12 in. x 17 in. (306 mm x 432 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, 2018
Reference Collection
NPG D48700

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  • (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856), Caricaturist and miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 32 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
  • John Fairburn (active 1793-1843). Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.

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Current affairs

Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.

Art and science

University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.

International

Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.
Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.

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