Nelson's Column Under Construction Trafalgar Square (1844)
| Created by: | William Henry Fox Talbot |
| Archive: | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Collection: | William Henry Fox Talbot Collection |
| Reference number: | Accession no. 2009.279 |
| Date: | April 1844 |
| Notes: | Anonymous Gift and Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts; 2004 Benefit Fund; W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel; Susan and Thomas Dunn and Constance and Leonard Goodman Gifts, 2009. Nelson's Column, April 1844: Britain celebrated Admiral Horatio Nelson's 1805 victory at the Battle of Trafalgar with the erection of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square in the 1840s. The main column and statue of Nelson were completed only a year before Franklin departed on his last Arctic voyage. |
Nelson's Column, April 1844: Britain celebrated Admiral Horatio Nelson's 1805 victory at the Battle of Trafalgar with the erection of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square in the 1840s. The main column and statue of Nelson were completed only a year before Franklin departed on his last Arctic voyage.
