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Object Type
Museum number: 1911,0221.8
Title: Object: The Peninsular Heroes Assembled at the United Service Club
Description: Interior with grouped portraits of officers who served in the Peninsular War, including General Paget standing over a map on a table at which General Combermere sits on the left, Marshal Beresford and Lieutenant Keane sitting on the right with a plumed helmet on the ground in front of them, and General Murral standing to the right of Wellington in the centre, gesturing towards General Bradford, who stands on the left, presenting himself: scratched-letter proof. 1847 Mixed method with hand-colouring
Producer name: Print made by: Frederick Bromley; After: John Prescott Knight; Printed by: Thomas Ross & Sons; Published by: Henry Graves & Co
School/style
Production date: 1847
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mixed method; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 554 millimetres (image); Width: 897 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A handwritten key identifying the sitters is pasted on the back of the print. The BM also has a copy of the key published with this print, (1955,0721.2) identifying the portraits and giving the prices: "Prints, £4.4s. Proofs with Letters, "8.8s. First Proofs before Letters, £12.12s.".
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: military; naval
Associated names: Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Representation of: Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort; Representation of: Lowry Cole; Representation of: Sir Thomas William Brotherton; Representation of: William Francis Patrick Napier; Representation of: Sir Thomas Bradford; Representation of: Lt-Col John Macdonald (?); Representation of: Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch; Representation of: Sir Richard Goddard Hare Clarges; Representation of: Sir William Lumley; Representation of: John Robert Hume; Representation of: Matthew Whitworth, 5th Lord Alymer; Representation of: Hon Gen Sir Charles Colville; Representation of: Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry; Representation of: Stapleton Cotton Combermere, 1st Viscount Combermere; Representation of: William Schaw, 1st Earl Cathcart; Representation of: Sir Edward Michael Pakenham; Representation of: Sir Robert Nickle; Representation of: Samuel Lambert; Representation of: George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale; Representation of: General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet; Representation of: Sir James Barnes; Representation of: John Keane, 1st Baron Keane; Representation of: Sir John Maclean; Representation of: Sir Robert Arbuthnot; Representation of: A Maclaine; Representation of: C F Smith; Representation of: Hon Sir Edward Paget; Representation of: William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford; Representation of: Right Hon Sir George Murray
Associated events: Associated Event: Peninsular War 1808-1814
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1911
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1911,0221.8

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