File:Darby allant se coucher à Portsmouth ... Le Lord North attendant des nouvelles de l'Amérique (BM 1861,1012.149).jpg
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editDarby allant se coucher à Portsmouth ... Le Lord North attendant des nouvelles de l'Amérique
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Darby allant se coucher à Portsmouth ... Le Lord North attendant des nouvelles de l'Amérique |
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Description |
English: Nos. 11 and 12 in a French series, see BMSat 6048. Two caricature portraits on one plate.
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Depicted people | Portrait of: Admiral George Darby | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1782 date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1861,1012.149 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Darby was given command of the British fleet in Aug. 1780. He relieved Gibraltar Apr. 1781 and escorted convoys, but failed to take opportunities of attacking the combined French and Spanish fleet. On 6 Nov. 1781 he returned to Spithead, and never served again. He was "a man of no distinction and very slender abilities", J. K. Laughton in 'D.N.B.' See James, 'The British Navy in Adversity', pp. 246-7, 302 ff. [12] "Lord North' (half length) seated, in profile to the left wearing a round hat. He has a long pointed nose and is grotesquely unlike North. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1012-149 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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