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Description: | Earthenware jug, transfer-printed in blue with fluted moulding at the neck and base and painted ochre rim. On one side a portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) inscribed above 'NELSON', around the portrait 'ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY' below 'Shew me my Country's Foes, the Hero cry'd,/he saw-He fought-He conquer'd-And he di'd.' On the other side is a naval action 'VICTORY' above. There is an inscription opposite the handle, below a naval trophy: 'HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT/NELSON/VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE./Knight of the Order of the Bath/Duke of Bronte in Sicily/Grand Cross of the Order of Ferdi/nand and of Merit and Knight of the imperial Order of/the Crescent', 'Copenhagen', 'Nile', 'Trafalgar'. The transfers are on a background of scrolling foliage, there is a border of foliage and trophies of arms running around the outside of the neck, with another border of laurel around the interior. The handle is decorated with transfers. | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Subjects: | Horatio Nelson Victory 1765 (HMS) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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