Sholto Henry Maclellan, 9th Baron Kirkcudbright ('Lordly elevation')

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 6 January 1802
10 3/8 in. x 8 1/4 in. (265 mm x 210 mm) plate size; 12 1/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (308 mm x 235 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D12776

Sitterback to top

Sholto Henry Maclellan, 8th Baron Kirkcudbright (1771-1827). Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artistsback to top

James Gillray (1756-1815), Caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 883 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
Hannah Humphrey (circa 1745-1818), Publisher and printseller. Artist or producer associated with 719 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (27 St James's Street, London)

Portrait setback to top

James Gillray etchings, 1777-1811 (1801-05 volume V)

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Events of 1802back to top

Current affairs

After returning from Naples, Nelson tours England with the diplomat and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton and his wife Emma, with whom he was having an affair. With Nelson's status confirmed as a national hero, their reception outrivals that of the King.
Extensive strikes in government shipyards led by John Gast.

Art and science

Francis Jeffrey, MP and arbiter of literary taste, co-founds the Edinburgh Review, the influential Whig quarterly which voiced strong criticism of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.
The Exchange, where stocks were traded, is rebuilt to cope with an increase in business during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

International

Peace of Amiens; Britain finally agrees to unpopular peace, leaving France the chief power in Europe and returning recent British colonial acquisitions.
Napoleon is declared First Consul of the French Empire for life.
English flock to see the international war plunder now on display at the Louvre in Paris.

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