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Charles Lucy's painting of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson viewing ticket

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/2/83 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Charles Lucy's painting of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson viewing ticket

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/2/83

Creator(s): MacLure & MacDonald

Site Location(s): Based in - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )

Date(s): 21 Mar 1853-04 Apr 1853

Size and medium: 1 ticket

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/gsjk43rr

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718725

Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Pictorial 19th centry lithographed ticket permitting admission to view Charles Lucy's painting of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar. Details inscribed on large board with sailor perched atop, holding onto ship's mast. Nelson's Column in background with various nautical items in foreground, including map labelling Africa, Spain and C. Trafalgar. Manuscript ink note for admission to 'C. King Esq'.


Transcription: Nelson on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, conceiving the immortal sign "England expects every man will do his duty" painted by Charles Lucy. James McClure & Son, Printsellers to the Queen. 100 Buchanan Street. Admit - and 2 Friends, from Monday 21st March 1853 for 14 days, Maclure & Macdonald Lith [Lithographers] To The Queen.

Physical characteristics

Technique: lithograph

Medium: print

Support: pasteboard

Object: width 115mm height 155mm

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