The Chelsea Pensioners reading the news of the Battle of Waterloo, by David Wilkie

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Design for 'The Chelsea Pensioners reading the news of the Battle of Waterloo'. Wilkie, David (British, 1785-1841). Pen and brown ink, 1820. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Accession Number: PD.199-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 649 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 187.30kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:01:22 11:28:14

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19th Century _WF_Batchelor Battle of Waterloo British School Chelsea Pensioners David Wilkie drawing Fitz_PDP sketch veterans Waterloo Wilkie

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