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Percy Bysshe Shelley

75 of 127 portraits by William Holl Sr

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

by William Holl Sr, or by William Holl Jr, after Amelia Curran
stipple and line engraving, (1819)
6 1/4 in. x 4 1/8 in. (160 mm x 104 mm) paper size
Given by Norwich Public Library, 1958
Reference Collection
NPG D6851

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Artistsback to top

  • Amelia Curran (1775-1847), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
  • William Holl Sr (1771-1838), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 127 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • William Holl Jr (1807-1871), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 177 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • NPG 1234: Percy Bysshe Shelley (source portrait)

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Events of 1819back to top

Current affairs

Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.
Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.

Art and science

Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.
Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.

International

Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.
Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.

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