Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.

  • Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Date:
1843
Reference:
730131i
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Sir Baldwin Wake Walker (1802-1876), 1st baronet. "With Admiralty permission he ... accepted a command in the Turkish navy, in which he was known at first as Walker Bey, and afterwards as Yavir Pasha. ... With the Crimean War, Walker became the main naval adviser to the first lord, and on occasions the only one. His advice was important in prompting the expedition to Sevastopol." (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

Publication/Creation

1843

Physical description

1 print : lithograph with tint plate, with watercolour ; sheet 41 x 30.3 cm

Lettering

Admiral Walker. David Wilkie ft Constantinople Novr. 27th 1840

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, no. 379, no. 5

Reference

Wellcome Collection 730131i

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