File:Oh what a falling off was there (BM 1868,0808.8992).jpg
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Summary
Oh what a falling off was there
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Artist |
Print made by: William Heath
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Title |
Oh what a falling off was there |
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Description |
English: After the title: 'fully accow [crossed out and replaced with a 'u'] —tred the Hero lay.' Above the design: 'Review—PI 2.' Wellington, sword in hand, falls from his horse, his white trousers crashing into a patch of cow-dung. He wears (in place of his field-marshal's cocked hat) a bearskin so enormous that it may well have overbalanced him. His horse stands beside him, pawing the ground. Behind (right) a group of mounted officers watch the accident. On the left two privates in huge bearskins stand at attention. May 29 1829
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1829 date QS:P571,+1829-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
Height: 259 millimetres
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.8992 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) At the review in Hyde Park on 28 May (cf. No. 15930) Wellington fell from his horse but was not hurt. 'Creevey Papers', 28 May 1829. He was "immensely" cheered by the crowd. Greville, 'Memoirs', 29 May. See No. 15784. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 4,578 px |
Image height | 3,168 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:22, 14 July 2009 |
File change date and time | 11:23, 14 July 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:23, 14 July 2009 |