Mug
Earthenware jug, transfer-printed in brown with ochre painted rims. 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, a naval action, 'VICTORY' above. There is an inscription opposite the handle, with a naval trophy above: 'HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT/NELSON/V[I]CE A[D]MIRAL 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'. A scrolling floral border with trophies of arms runs around the inside of the rim. There is mottled decoration on the handle.
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Object Details
ID: | AAA4892 |
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Collection: | Decorative art |
Type: | Mug |
Display location: | Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery |
Creator: | Unknown |
Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801; French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
Vessels: | Victory (1765) |
Date made: | circa 1806 |
Exhibition: | Nelson, Navy, Nation |
People: | Nelson, Horatio |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 87 x 116 x 88 mm |