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The Apparition   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Apparition
Description
English: Satire on Admiral Byng; Byng, in fetters, is visited by the ghost of his father, the naval hero George Byng, Viscount Torrington, who harangues him in verse; on a table are books lettered "Spanish Armada" and "Matthews and Lestock"; on the wall behind the figures are two pictures, one in which Byng addresses the Duke of Newcastle, "Pray your Grace let me be sent", and the other in which a figure of Justice points to a mob carrying an effigy of Byng, labelled "I Could not Fight", towards a gallows at the foot of which lies a sheet of paper lettered, "Gazetta B[yng']s Letter Lyes and Nonsence". 1756
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Depicted people Representation of: Admiral John Byng
Date between 1756 and 1757
date QS:P571,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 315 millimetres
Width: 208 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4008
Notes

References in the verses include: General Blakeney, lieutenant-governor of Minorca who surrendered the island after Byng's departure; Captain Cunningham who played a part in its defence; Captain Andrews who was killed in Byng's skirmish with the French fleet; Captain Noel who was wounded; Byng's brother Edward (1706-56) who died after visiting him in Portsmouth on 28 July 1756.

The lettering on the book on the table suggests a parallel between the Byng affair and the aftermath of the battle of Toulon in 1744 when Vice-Admiral Richard Lestock was court-martialled, and acquitted, and Vice-Admiral Thomas Matthews cashiered.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4008
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