Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt ('A view in the Justice Room, Guildhall')
8 of 41 portraits of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt ('A view in the Justice Room, Guildhall')
by and published by Richard Dighton
etching, published 1819
7 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. (184 mm x 210 mm) plate size; 11 in. x 13 3/4 in. (279 mm x 349 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D8793
Sitterback to top
- Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt (1768-1843), Lord Mayor of London. Sitter associated with 41 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Richard Dighton (1795-1880), Portrait painter and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 313 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D13318: Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt ('A view in the Justice Room, Guildhall') (from same plate)
- NPG D8794: Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Bt ('A view in the Justice Room, Guildhall') (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Justice Room, The Guildhall, London)
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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