Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
293 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341524
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Lord Nelson, standing, in cocked hat, tailed coat with epaulets, waistcoat, breeches and shoes. Telescope(?) in his left hand resting on a gun with its rope against his left leg. A jug with its handle behind him.
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
NELSON (black script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter