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- Museum number
- 1852,0214.79
- Title
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Object: View of the Duke of Wellingtons lines covering Lisbon
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Series: Views in Spain and Portugal
- Description
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Plate 1: View over a field seen from a hill, two soldiers reclined on the ground in the left foreground, their tent and cannon beside, another soldier behind walking off a path which cuts across the field in the middle distance, another hill in the background where further tents stand, forests beyond. 1813?
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1813 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres (image)
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Width: 301 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is first of the twelve plates which consist the series. Only thirty copies of the series were printed, and probably published in 1813. One bound volume is kept in the Prints and Drawing Department, located in 174.a.24 (1904,0711.16.1-12). The title-page of the volume reads: "Views / in / Spain and Portugal / taken during the campaigns of His Grace the Duke / of Wellington / by George Cumberland Jr,, / only 30 copies printed."
Tim Saunders (email July 2020) suggests that the view is not of the Lines of Torres Vedras (which were 30 miles east of Santarem) but of the Ponte d'Asseca causeway over the Rio Mayer. The Assces Hill beyond the causeway was entrenched by the Light Division and held as a stand alone fortification from November 1810 to March 1811.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Peninsular War 1808-1814
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1852,0214.79