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Portrait plaque
Portrait plaque depicting Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). It is part of a watch stand. The item is pyramid-shaped, cast in relief with a profile porait of Nelson in uniform facing left within a laurel wreath, 'TRAFALGAR / Oct 21.1805' is inscribed below. The portrait is surounded by a laurel wreath and flanked by two sphynxes in the lower corners of the pyramid. Inscribed across the base is: 'NILE COPENHAGEN'.
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0597 |
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| Type: | Portrait plaque |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805; French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 |
| Date made: | circa 1806 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 145 mm x 130 mm x 10 mm |