Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Horatio Nelson NPG D13770

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by T.C. Wilson, printed by W. Clerk, published by E. Glover

The only meeting between Nelson and Major-General Wellesley, before he was the Duke of Wellington, took place in 1805 in the ante-room of the Colonial Office. Wellesley had just returned from his first succession of brilliant campaigns in India while Nelson was in London for the last time before leaving for the Battle of Trafalgar. Wellesley was at first unimpressed by Nelson's 'vain and silly' conversation, but during their long wait he saw enough to be satisfied that Nelson 'really was a superior man'. It... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.