The r-l speech [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The r-l speech [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Royal speech
- Creator
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Contributor
- McLean, T. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [February 1828]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
- Abstract
-
"Codrington, wearing the star of the Bath, sits on a gun-carriage on the deck of his ship, looking sternly up at an old scarred and pigtailed sailor who addresses him with an expression of consternation: Please your Honor's Glory there's something wrong in the wind, for they've clapt a Marine at the Helme of Old England, and He and the other lob lollies have made Sombody (God bless Him) to call our Glorious Victory an UNTOWARD EVENT And when they where told to belay their jawing tackel they shifted the wind and began to blow another way. Codrington answers Aye Aye Jack they or we must be fools. In his right hand is his sword, the point resting on the deck, the blade inscribed with Nelson's Trafalgar signal: England expects every Man to do his duty. He holds a document: Treaty of London. His back is to the sea where a rocky promontory (right) forms Wellington's profile, looking towards Codrington, a row of tiny gun-emplacements forming a grim smile (cf. BM Satires No. 15691); on the rock is a flag at half-mast, topped by a spurred Wellington boot, upside down."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 221. - Provenance
- Caricatures II; September 1968;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 34.7 x 25 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 828.02.00.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 - Subject (Topic)
-
Emblems
Sailors
British
Swords - Subjects
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Emblems
Sailors > British
Swords
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1828
England > London > 1828
19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9578386
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128756