FDA-E.1128-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.1128-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Napoleon Bonaparte
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
SW 116
Description
Content (person)
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769 - 1821 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 464mm
width (sight size): 623mm
width (sight size): 623mm
Inscription
Written in pencil on reverse: '549/SW116/KO./-/-'
Lettered beneath print 'As he presented himself at the gangway of His Majesty's ship Bellephron, in Plymouth Sound, in the month of August 1815. To His Royal Highness the Prince Regent This Print, as commemorating the result of the persevering persistence of Great Britain to the Ambition of Napoleon and as exhibiting one of the immediate and most important consequences of the Victory of Waterloo is with His Royal Highness's gracious permission humbly and respectfully dedicated by His Royal Highness's most faithful and devoted servant, Charles Lock Eastlake'
Lettered beneath print 'As he presented himself at the gangway of His Majesty's ship Bellephron, in Plymouth Sound, in the month of August 1815. To His Royal Highness the Prince Regent This Print, as commemorating the result of the persevering persistence of Great Britain to the Ambition of Napoleon and as exhibiting one of the immediate and most important consequences of the Victory of Waterloo is with His Royal Highness's gracious permission humbly and respectfully dedicated by His Royal Highness's most faithful and devoted servant, Charles Lock Eastlake'
Production
Person
Date
26/06/1816
History and association
Previous ownership
