Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('Nil Fuit Unquam Tam Dispar Sibi!!!')
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('Nil Fuit Unquam Tam Dispar Sibi!!!')
by William Heath, published by Gabriel Shire Tregear
etching, published 20 February 1834
13 1/2 in. x 9 5/8 in. (342 mm x 243 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, 2018
Reference Collection
NPG D48863
Sitterback to top
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Field Marshal and Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 640 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- William Heath (1795-1840), Printmaker and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 103 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Gabriel Shire Tregear (active 1828-1840), Printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairs
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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