Plate

Creamware plate, transfer-printed in brown with a circular portrait inscribed 'LORD NELSON' (a poor likeness). Beneath it the verse 'Here's a health to brave Nelson!/Old England's boast/"The Hero of the Nile"/Let this be our toast.' The edge of the plate is decorated with six brown transfers of different birds sitting on twigs and touches of blue glaze.

Object Details

ID: AAA4759
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Plate
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Events: French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Date made: After 1798
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund.
Measurements: Overall: 20 x 245 mm