print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4180
- Title
- Object: The Hero and his Horse on the Field of Waterloo, Twenty Years after the Battle
- Description
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Portrait of Wellington; full-length seen from behind, his right hand on his horse's neck, his hat in his left, looking down to left, on a hill-top with rooftops and a procession of haycarts below; after Haydon; scratched open-letter state. 1851
Mixed method mezzotint
- Production date
- 1851
- Dimensions
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Height: 492 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 555 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was acquired for reference purposes only. Its condition is so poor that it cannot be displayed.
There is an earlier print after the same painting by Thomas Lupton from 1843 published on Thomas Mclean (we are grateful to Brian Commane for this information).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.4180