Death of Nelson at Trafalgar

Electrotype copper [?] plaque after the high-relief bronze panel by Carew (1850) at the base of Nelson's Column, in a black wooden frame with a gold inner moulding. The lower edge of the plaque bears the legend 'ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY'. It is accompanied by a handwritten label including a laudatory doggerel verse, originally framed when both were purchased from a Mr Franklin of Bexleyeath in October 1975 but now demounted (AAB0489).

Object Details

ID: OBJ0493
Type: Relief
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Carew, John Edward
Events: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Date made: After 1850
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 470 x 485 x 35 mm