File:Viscount Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 RMG BHC3824.tiff
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Summary
Viscount Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
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| Author |
George Lucy Good; after Charles Lucy |
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| Title |
Viscount Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
English: Viscount Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 An imaginary full-length portrait to left wearing vice-admiral’s undress uniform with the star and ribbon of the Bath, the Neapolitan Order of St Ferdinand, the Turkish Order of the Crescent and German Order of St Joachim and of Merit. His empty sleeve is pinned across and he rests his head on his left hand in contemplation. Nelson is shown sitting at his desk in his day cabin on the ‘Victory’, on the morning of Trafalgar. On the desk is the codicil to his will, as well as papers, ink well, telescope and hat. The painting is a copy of one of the series of portraits of eminent figures commissioned from Charles Lucy to include men such as Cromwell, Nelson, Bright, Cobden and Gladstone. Lucy submitted his Nelson painting – now in the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth – to the Royal Academy in 1854, with the title, ‘Nelson meditating in the cabin of the Victory previously to the battle of Trafalgar’ and also included Tennyson’s line, ‘mighty seaman, brave and true’. On the reverse of Good’s copy is a handwritten inscription: ‘Horatio Viscount Nelson KB etc Vice Admiral of the White. Painted by George Lucy Good, from the engraving of the picture done by Charles Lucy in 1854. Some corrections have been made in the uniform etc. G. Lucy Good.’ |
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| Depicted people |
Horatio Nelson |
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| Date | circa 1854 | |||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 510 mm x 405 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC3824 |
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| Notes | Acquisition: no acquisition number. Painting is in a basic storage frame, secured with tape. | |||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15297 | |||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: BHC3824 | |||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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| current | 08:01, 3 October 2017 |  | 1,901 × 2,490 (13.54 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1854), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15297 #2174 |
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