Ascension 2015 Bicentenary of British Settlement
From Stamps of the World
- Issue Date : 27th April 2015
- Designed by : Bee Design, from paintings
- Printed by : BDT Internatonal Security Printing, Dublin
- Print process : Offset lithography
- Sheet Format:
- Stamp Size:
- Perforations : 13.75 x 13.75
- For details of Part I click on: Ascension 2013 Bicentenary of British Settlement I
- For details of Part II click on: Ascension 2014 Bicentenary of British Settlement II
- For details of Part IV click on: Ascension 2015 Bicentenary of British Settlement (IV)
Bicentenary of British Settlement: Napoleonic Years, Part III
55p ~ Napoleon Bonaparte on the Borodino Heights (1812) by Vasili Vasilyevich (1842-1904), painted in 1897
60p ~ Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814, by Paul Delaroche, 1797-1856, Shows disconsolate Napoleon in his aparments after defeat in 1813 at Leipzig
65p ~ Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, a painted portrait in uniform after Thomas Lawrence. Wellesley became First Duke of Wellington in 1814 (year of the painting) despite his absence from Britain
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£1.60 ~ Napoleon dictates his memoirs to General Baron Gourgaud whilst on exile on the island of St Helena, 1818
