The Iron Duke.

I spend a fair bit of my spare time looking at early photographs as I am fascinated by them and the proliferation of 'colourised' B/W images does in many cases really help to bring the subject back to life although often the colours are not totally accurate. This one just staggered me, an 1844 Daguerreotype of The Duke of Wellington taken on his 75th Birthday 175 years ago. It has been sensitively coloured.