Overall: 53.5cm (21in) x 32cm (12.5in)
Provenance: Miss Rigby, governess to the daughters of Admiral Sir Colin Keppel (1862-1947).
Lithograph cut out of Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington standing, to the left, seen partially from behind, in evening dress, wearing the Garter star, and the red ribbon of the Order of the Golden Fleece at his neck, and knee Garter; holding a topper in his left hand. Contained in period glazed frame. Inscribed verso Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, friend of King Edward VII / from Miss Rigby who was Governess to his daughter’.
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The present image derives from a painting in the Apsley House Collection that shows the duke looking at a bust of Napoleon during a party given by Baroness Burdett-Coutts, which according to ‘Wellington Portrayed’ (2014, Marquess of Douro) was produced by observation rather than sittings. The image was engraved by the Maltese lithographer and painter Paul Gaucci (1807-1875) after Charles Robert Leslie.