Earl Nelson [sic]. From a Drawing in the United Service Museum - Taken from Life By Chas. Grignon At Naples 1797

A mistitled print from Grignion's drawing (PAF4381), since Nelson was only made a baron after the Battle of the Nile (1798) and died a viscount, his elder brother William then becoming 1st Earl Nelson. The place and date given for the drawing is also wrong: it was done in Palermo on 7 February 1799 (see Walker, Nelson Portraits, pp.94-5, ill.95). The source of this print is Miss H.S. Turner's 'Sixty Portraits from Unedited Originals' (no date but suggested to be circa 1835-40 by Walker, op. cit. p. 228).

Object Details

ID: PAD3759
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Graf & Soret; Grignion, Charles Turner, H. S.
Date made: circa 1835-40
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund.
Measurements: Mount: 9 1/4 in x 6 9/16 in