Title

Dessert plate depicting the Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1810s

Caption

Dessert plate depicting the Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1810s. This series of forts was built in secret in 1809-1810 to defend Lisbon. Item in Apsley House, London, from the Wellington Museum. Part of a dinner service which was given as a gift from the King of Prussia to the Duke of Wellington in 1819. Dessert plates of the Prussian Service show scenes of events in Wellington's life, in this case the Peninsular War.

Date

1810

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B39_070

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

49.7Mo (2.1Mo) / 33.9cm x 36.7cm / 4008 x 4338 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany countryside building buildings fort landscape German arts painting country Portugal art color colour defence plate painted fortification Lisbon war location century artefact concept artifact 19th century battlefield dessert plate nineteenth century English Heritage dinner service Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War TGN Torres Vedras object landscape ceramic Duke of Arthur Duke of Wellington Wellington Wellesley Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington The Iron Duke Iron Duke Lord Wellington 1st Duke of Wellington Sir Arthur Wellesley Prussian Service AJ Photographics Duke of Wellington ceramic landscape object