Portrait.

A monument to George Bridges Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792), showing Rodney in admiral’s undress uniform, 1787–1795, with the sash and star of the Order of the Bath, holding his sword in his right hand. He stands on top of a plinth flanked on the left by a winged figure of Victory (holding a laurel branch) and on the right by a seated figure of History (making notes on a tablet with a stylus) with flags behind. The plinth is inscribed with the title, ‘Vice Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, K. B.’, followed by horizontal lines to suggestion a lengthy monumental inscription. Lettered beneath the image with the publication details: ‘London. Published as the Act directs by John Williams, 44 Paternoster Row, Jany. 1826.’ This print shows Rodney’s monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, which was desined by John Charles Felix Rossi and completed in 1815. The monument was commissioned by Parliamentary vote and paid for with state funds. In this print, the inscription has not been copied from the monument. The print refers to Rodney as a vice admiral and a knight of the Bath, despite the fact that these were not the highest honours he achieved – by the time of his death in 1792, he was an admiral and had been ennobled as Baron Rodney. (Updated May 2019.)