Jug

Earthenware jug transfer-printed in brown with a ochre painted rim and edges to the handle. The transfers are hand-coloured in red, yellow and green. 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' inscribed above. There is an inscription opposite the handle, with a naval trophy above: 'HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT/NELSON/VICE-ADMIRAL 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 outside of the rim, and a laurel border on the inside. The handle is mottled.

Object Details

ID: AAA4906
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Jug
Display location: Not on display
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
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 145 x 170 x 125 mm