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Jug
An earthenware jug, transfer-printed in black with red and yellow check decoration around the neck. The transfers are partly hand-coloured. On one side is a circular portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) after Daniel Orme, with ships in the background and trophies below, inscribed above 'ADMIRAL NELSON/ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY' below 'VICTORY.' On the other side, a woman in classical dress with two young children all dressed in yellow, one playing with a lamb. 'Behold the Widow casting herself and Orphans on benevolent Britons.' Below the lip a verse within a laurel wreath: 'A Hero great he was/His Country's praise & pride/Most gloriously he fought/And for his Country died.'
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA4820 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Jug |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
| Date made: | circa 1806 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 205 x 210 x 175 mm |
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