• Title
  Miniature portrait of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, c. 1817
• Call number
  DL Pa 10
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1817
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  432046
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 7.2 x 6 cm, image - 12.9 x 10.5 cm, frame - Porcelain backed in metal, originally encased in japanned wooden rectangular frame painted black with circular shaped glass, and brass mount in centre. At the top centre of the frame is a metal clasp shaped like an acorn with leaves with two metal loops to hang frame
  
• Scope and Content
  Portrait of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (famous as the Earl of Uxbridge at Waterloo). It is based on an original whole-length oil by Sir Thomas Lawrence, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817 and now in the collection at Plas Newydd. Copies of the whole-length exist, including a replica at Apsley House. The man in this portrait wears a black silk stock at neck, white shirt with wing collar, a double breasted blue jacket with orders (incl. the blue riband of the Order of the Garter or the Order of St. Patrick, and the crimson riband of the Order of the Bath), medals and a gilt cord lanyard. He also wears a red-white-red riband of an unidentified order.
  
  Reference:
  Compiled from the collection, and appraisal by Paul Cox, Associate Curator (Reference Collection), National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place London
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Three non-contemporaneous labels are affixed to reverse of mount.
  "Admiral / Hughes / 1820 1820 / enamel (bone?)" in black text.
  "Midshipman (?) / on 'Bounty' when / mutiny - Bligh &c. / marooned"
  "Original history / on back removed / when pawned"
  Digital order no:a128652
  This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The reverse of the portrait is inscribed with details of the identity of the sitter of the portrait and artist but these have been scratched over at an unknown date. The text, "Painted", "H.R.H", and "Ernest" are visible.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  royal families
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3202621

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