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Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.


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portrait / General John Millet Hamerton

Oil painting of General John Millet Hamerton CB. Oil painting of Hamerton, depicting 34 length and wearing the CB badge, the Egyptian medal and his Waterloo medal.

 

periodical / An Incident at Waterloo

Page of periodical 'Chatterbox', No. XLIII, 337. Titled 'An Incident at Waterloo'. c.1815.

 

prison art / Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815

French Prisoner of War model ship; early 19th century, period of the Napoleonic Wars. 1803-1815. 'Hero', 58 gunner, prisoner art of beef bone and wood. Three-masted war ship. Set standing on a carved bone stand, decorated with fish and sea gods etc. Model, bone. Man-of War, made by French...

 

Waterloo medal / General John Millet Hamerton, Waterloo, 1815

General John Millet Hamerton's Waterloo medal. Obverse: Head of Regent to left, crowned with laurel. Around, on left, GEORGE, P. on right, REGENT. Signed under shoulder, T. WYON JUN. Reverse: Victory seated to left with wings outspread over a plinth inscribed WATERLOO which in turn is over the date...