The Death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1805
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
223 mm (H)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341519
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, The Death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) , Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Lord Nelson, sitting, bare-headed, supported on each side by an officer, both standing in cocked hats worn fore and aft.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
DEATH OF NELSON (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter