FDA-D.131-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.131-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Whole-length portrait of a man, almost in profile to the left, wearing a blue jacket and black breeches, holding a hat in his left hand
Comments
This drawing is presumably copied from the version by Charles Robert Leslie, dated 1845 to 1950, in the collection of the British Museum (reference: 1860,0414.447).
Other number
CP 27
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 360mm
width (sight size): 236mm
width (sight size): 236mm
Inscription
Fascimile of Wellington's autograph pasted onto drawing sheet lower right
Labels:
1) I.D. label
2) On back, typed label with provenance
3) On back, Agnews sale label
Labels:
1) I.D. label
2) On back, typed label with provenance
3) On back, Agnews sale label
Materials & techniques note
Watercolour over pencil
Physical description
Plain oak frame
Production
Person
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780 - 1860 (Artist)
Date
c.1850
History and association
Associated object
FDA-D.818-2013 (another copy)
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of John Carter, Fellow of Eton College; by whom presented to the College in 1967
(Previously hung in Brewhouse Gallery 1967)
(Previously hung in Brewhouse Gallery 1967)
