print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1880,1113.2248.1-5
- Title
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Object: The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square, Nov, 16. 1843
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Object: Nelson before Copenhagen
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Object: Bas-relief of the Nelson Column - Nelson receiving the officers' swords after the Battle of St Vincent
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Object: Bronze alto-relievo, by Woodington, for the Nelson Monument, Trafalgar Square - the Battle of the Nile
- Description
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View of the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square during construction, surrounding by scaffolding; also four depictions of the tablets representing Nelson's important battles, one of which is larger in size and on different paper, and seems to have been printed for a different publication. 1843
Wood-engraving and letterpress on five sheets
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 millimetres (average size of 3 battle depictions)
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Height: 218 millimetres (fourth battle depiction)
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Height: 337 millimetres
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Width: 152 millimetres (average size of 3 battle depictions)
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Width: 224 millimetres (fourth battle depiction)
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Width: 227 millimetres (image of column)
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- Curator's comments
- These were probably printed for a magazine or newspaper. Dr Joanna Weddell (email Sept 2020) thinks these are from the 'Illustrated London News' of 18 November 1843.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,1113.2248.1-5
