print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1849,0721.1821-1822
- Title
- Object: The Wellington Shield
- Description
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Four prints representing portions of the Wellington Shield; after Stothard; pasted to the same album sheet.
'The Battle of Vimiera August 21 AD 1808', 2nd compartment; Scottish infantry and other soldiers on horseback charging from the left.
'Passage of the Douro Oporto Liberated 1809'; Wellington stepping out of a boat on the left and greeted by the citizens of Oporto.
'The Lines of Torres Vedras March 6 1811', 4th compartment; Infantry marching to left, several carrying burning torches, some collapsed on the ground.
'Badaioz assaulted and taken April 6 1812', 5th compartment; men mounting siege ladders set against a city's walls; others lying dead on the ground.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1821 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres (circa)
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Width: 160 millimetres (circa)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Included in the fourth volume of Balmanno's collection of Stothard's work in BM P&D. See 1849,0721.1 for more information.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0721.1821-1822
