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Description: | Oval patch box with a mirror inside the lid, commemorating Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). The surface is enamelled, the base and gadrooned sides coloured green. The lid is white with a border of green triangles and red dots, the inscription in the centre is a black transfer 'The Victry's won/The Gallant Nelson/cry'd/He liv'd a Hero/and a Hero dy'd.'
Chipped on base edge and inside.
caption: Patch box | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Horatio Nelson patch boxes | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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