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Leslie - Duke of Wellington looking at bust of Napoleon N070535

APSLEY HOUSE, London. "The Duke of Wellington looking at bust of Napoleon" by Charles Robert LESLIE (1794-1859). WM 1569-1948

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Painting, Wellington

Abraham Lincoln Statue, Westminster, London

Statue of US President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Parliament Square, Westminster, London (now re-located slightly to stand in front of the Middlesex Guildhall) - a replica of the original piece by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, erected in Lincoln Park Chicago. In the rear can be seen The Buxton Memorial Fountain originally constructed (as seen) in Parliament Square but removed in 1940 and placed in its present position in Victoria Tower Gardens in 1957. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore 18th century

Engraving of the Coat of Arms Calvert Lord Baltimore, item 104 of an 18th-century publication.Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 104. Calvert, Lord Baltimore. FATTI MASGHII, PAROLE FEMINE (Deeds are masculine, words are feminine). Baltimore is in County Longford, Ireland. Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore, was born in 1731. Cecelius Calvert, his great-great-grandfather, is sometimes called the founder of Maryland, USA. Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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