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Portrait plaque
Portrait plaque depicting Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). A white wax plaque showing Nelson after the Wedgwood plaque modelled by de Vaere in 1798. He is shown in profile facing to the right, wearing uniform and the star and sash of a Knight of the Bath. After moulding the wax has been worked with pin pricks and scratched decoration. The plaque is mounted on dark blue blue velvet, in a oval wood frame.
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0649 |
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| Type: | Portrait plaque |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 19th century |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio; Queen Mary, Consort of King George V |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 145 mm x 120 mm x 35 mm |
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