![[Richard Colley Wellesley] To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, This Portrait of The Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, K.G. &c. &c. &c.](jpegs/66153.jpg)
[Richard Colley Wellesley] To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, This Portrait of The Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, K.G. &c. &c. &c. Is by permission dedicated by Her Majesty's most faithful Subjects and very humbles Servants Welsh & Gwynne.
Sir Tho.s Lawrence P.R.A. Pinx.t. Samuel Cousins A.R.A. Sculp.t.
London, Jan.y 1.st 1842, Published by Welch & Gwynne, 24, S.t James's Street.
Fine mezzotint. 390 x 305mm (15½ x 12"), with large margins.
Seated half-length portrait of Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), Marquess Wellesley, wearing garter star partly obscured by his lapel and ribbon with medal around his neck, his left hand just visible, curtain behind. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
Whitman 170, iv of iv.
[Ref: 66153] £250.00
London, Jan.y 1.st 1842, Published by Welch & Gwynne, 24, S.t James's Street.
Fine mezzotint. 390 x 305mm (15½ x 12"), with large margins.
Seated half-length portrait of Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), Marquess Wellesley, wearing garter star partly obscured by his lapel and ribbon with medal around his neck, his left hand just visible, curtain behind. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
Whitman 170, iv of iv.
[Ref: 66153] £250.00