Wellington: A Personal History. Christopher Hibbert

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СКАЧАТЬ Battersea Fields and Scotland Yard, 1829

       35 The Death of the King, 1829–30

       36 Riots and Repression, 1830–2

       37 A Bogy to the Mob, 1832

       38 Oxford University and Apsley House, 1832–4

       39 Lady Friends, 1834

       40 The Foreign Secretary, 1834–6

       41 Portraits and Painters, 1830–50

       42 Life at Walmer Castle, 1830–50

       43 The Young Queen, 1837–9

       44 Grand Old Man, 1839–50

       45 The Horse Guards and the House of Lords, 1842–50

       46 Hyde Park Comer, 1845–6

       47 Disturbers of the Peace, 1846–51

       48 Growing Old, 1850–1

       49 Last Days, 1851–2

       50 The Way to St Paul’s, 1852

       Footnote

       Keep Reading

       References

       Sources

       Index

       Photo Section

       About the Author

       Praise

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       ILLUSTRATIONS

      BLACK AND WHITE

      Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Arthur Wellesley. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Anne, Countess of Mornington. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      The Hon. William Wellesley-Pole. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      The Rev. the Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley. Photograph Mary Evans Picture Library.

      The Hon. Henry Wellesley. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Caricature of soldiers on the march, by Thomas Rowlandson. Copyright British Museum.

      ‘Blücher the Brave’: caricature by Thomas Rowlandson. Guildhall Library, Corporation of London. Photograph Bridgeman Art Library, London.

      The Duke of Wellington and Marshall Blücher. Photograph Mansell Collection.

      Caricature by Isaac Cruikshank. Copyright British Museum.

      The Duchess of Wellington, in a drawing by John Hayter. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Lord Castlereagh. National Portrait Gallery, London. Photograph Mansell Collection.

      Harriet Arbuthnot. Photograph Mary Evans Picture Library.

      Charles Arbuthnot. Reproduced courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

      Frances Mary Gascoyne-Cecil, second Marchioness of Salisbury. Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Hatfield House. Reproduced courtesy of Lord Salisbury and National Portrait Gallery, London.

      Apsley House, No. i London. Reproduced courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Wellington Museum, Apsley House.

      View of the proposed Waterloo Palace. Reproduced courtesy of the Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Charles Greville. Photograph Mary Evans Picture Library.

      Lady Charlotte Greville. Copyright British Museum.

      Oil sketch of the Duke, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      ‘Achilles in the Sulks’: caricature by Thomas Howell Jones. Copyright British Museum.

      Repose, a lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle). Copyright Museum of London.

      Punch drawing of the Duke’s statue. Pub. Vol. II, July-December 1846, p. 150. © Punch Ltd.

      Walmer Castle. Photograph Mary Evans Picture Library.

      ‘The Field of Battersea’: caricature by William Heath. Reproduced courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Wellington Museum, Apsley House.

      Sketch by Benjamin Robert Haydon for his Wellington Musing on the Field of Waterloo. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Wellington Musing on the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon. Reproduced courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (Walker Art Gallery).

      Queen Victoria’s first Privy Council meeting, by Sir David Wilkie. The Royal Collection © Her Majesty The Queen.

      Miniature engraving of the Duke aged seventy-five. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.

      Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of the Duke with Sir Robert Peel. The Royal Collection © Her Majesty The СКАЧАТЬ