File:Nelson's Tower, Forres RMG PU3908.tiff
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English: Nelson's Tower, Forres A hand-coloured aquatint showing Nelson’s Tower, Forres, Moray, Scotland. Built in 1806 by the Forres Trafalgar Club it commemorated Nelson's victory and death at that battle. It was also the first monument erected to him after his death and the most northerly of all Britain's Nelson monuments. The octagonal 21-metre tower was opened in 1812 and stands above what is now Grant Park. It was built in the gothic style by Charles Stewart and the 96 steps to the roof reveal spectacular views of the Moray Firth. In William Daniell’s aquatint, a group of fashionably dressed people stands in the foreground with others round the foot of the tower and the Moray Firth beyond. Thus the tower was not only a place of commemoration to a national figure but also a tourist landmark and viewpoint. Daniell’s pictorial survey, ‘A Voyage Round Great Britain’, concentrating on prominent features of the coast, commenced in the summer of 1813 with a view of Land’s End, Cornwall. The series ran to eight volumes published between 1814 and 1825, and this print was included in volume five (1821). Daniell was not only the artist but also the engraver and publisher as the inscription shows: ‘Drawn and Engraved by Willm Daniell. Published by W. Daniell Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, June 1 1821’. |
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| Date | Published 1 June 1821 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Mount: 226 mm x 301 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Box Title: Nelson. Statues & Memorials [not London]. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/108059 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 54 Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 940 id number: PAD3908 |
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| Collection | Fine art | ||||||||||||||||||||
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