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Portrait plaque
Portrait plaque depicting Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). Plaster relief shows the sitter in profile wearing a uniform and facing left. The figure is coloured white on a black-painted background. It is mounted in an oval, glazed wooden frame. Signed: 'Tassie F. 1805' on the base. 'ADMIRAL LORD NELSON DIED IN THE GLORIOUS BATTLE OFF TRAFALGAR OCT 21 1805' (on truncation).
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0584 |
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| Type: | Portrait plaque |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Tassie, William |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
| Date made: | 1805 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 175 mm x 120 mm x 25 mm |