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1. The r-l speech [graphic]
- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1828]
- Call Number:
- 828.02.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Royal speech
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 221.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
- Subject (Name):
- Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Emblems, Sailors, British, and Swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The r-l speech [graphic]
