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Summary
Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith, British admiral, at Acre (1764-1840)
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| Title |
Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith, British admiral, at Acre (1764-1840) |
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| Date | 1 January 1808 (published) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | stipple engraving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 60.4 cm (23.7 in); width: 39 cm (15.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Department for Work & Pensions, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London |
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| Accession number |
2152 |
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| Inscriptions |
Text recto bottom left: Painted by J. Eckstein
immediately below image Text recto bottom center: London: Pub.d as the Act directs by A. Cardon, N.o37, London Street, Fitzroy Square Jany 1 1808
immediately below image Text recto bottom right: Engraved by Anth.y Cardon
immediately below image Text recto bottom center: SIR SIDNEY SMITH. Extract of a dispatch from Captain SIR W. SMITH to Rear Admiral LORD NELSON, dated H.M.S. Le TIGRE, Bay of ACRE, 9 May 1799. " I accordingly landed the boats at the Mote, and took the crews up to the breach armed with pikes. Many fugitives returned with us, and the governor, JEZZAR PASHA, hearing the To JOHN SPENCER SMITH, Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. &c &c &c This Print executed under his obliging patronage is respectfully inscribed by his most humble servant ANTHONY CARDON |
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
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| current | 12:58, 31 January 2016 | | 3,699 × 6,036 (9 MB) | Laura1822 | newer, superior image from same museum source |
| 23:21, 8 November 2006 |  | 260 × 400 (24 KB) | Anetode | {{Information |Description=Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840) Admiral, at Acre |Source=[http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/search/Object.asp?object_key=11497 UK Government Art Collection] |Date=published 1 January 1808 |Author=engraver: Antoine Cardon, paint |
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