'One Hundred Years Ago 1805-1905'

PZ7610

'One Hundred Years Ago 1805-1905' Long Caption: From an oil painting marking the Trafalgar centenary, bearing Holden's signature and the date lower left, reproduced in the plate. It shows a Royal Naval seaman in the former 'Nelson Room' off the Upper Hall in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Earlier this was the Greenwich Hospital records room, where Nelson's coffin was first placed on its arrival on 23 December 1805 before his lying in state in January 1806. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAI7610 Artist: Albert W. Holden; Thomas McLean Date: 1905 Medium: photogravure Size: 510 mm x 400 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.