Walmer Castle. November 5, 1852.
[British, Anon., November 1852.]
Memorial souvenir of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852); one sheet folded so 4to (265 x 215mm, 10½ x 8½"). Rare, illustrated letterpress verses with sepia-tinted lithograph of Walmer Castle to upper leaf. Some faint staining.
Wellington died, aged 83, of the after effects of a stroke culminating in a series of epileptic seizures, on 14 September 1852, at Walmer Castle - his honorary residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on the east Kent coast. Walmer Castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539-1540 as an artillery fortress to counter the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain. It was part of his programme to create a chain of coastal defences along England's coast known as the Device Forts or as Henrician Castles. The castle is now owned and managed by English Heritage.
[Ref: 22721] £130.00
Memorial souvenir of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852); one sheet folded so 4to (265 x 215mm, 10½ x 8½"). Rare, illustrated letterpress verses with sepia-tinted lithograph of Walmer Castle to upper leaf. Some faint staining.
Wellington died, aged 83, of the after effects of a stroke culminating in a series of epileptic seizures, on 14 September 1852, at Walmer Castle - his honorary residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on the east Kent coast. Walmer Castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539-1540 as an artillery fortress to counter the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain. It was part of his programme to create a chain of coastal defences along England's coast known as the Device Forts or as Henrician Castles. The castle is now owned and managed by English Heritage.
[Ref: 22721] £130.00