2-702-493 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Horatio Viscount of Nelson', (1933). Portrait of British Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). One of Britain's greatest military figures, Nelson was the victor at a number of naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and most famously, Trafalgar (1805) where he was fatally wounded. After a miniature by William Essex, after a painting by Lemuel Francis Abbott. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]