William Wordsworth
14 of 23 portraits of William Wordsworth







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William Wordsworth
by Henry Meyer, published by Henry Colburn, after Richard Carruthers
stipple engraving, published 1 February 1819
7 1/8 in. x 4 3/4 in. (181 mm x 121 mm)
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D8807
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- Richard Carruthers (1792-1876). Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
- Henry Colburn (1784 or 1785-1855), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 28 portraits.
- Henry Meyer (1782?-1847), Portrait painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 279 portraits.
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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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