The death of Admiral Lord Nelson - in the moment of victory! (Horatio Nelson; Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Bt) Portrait Print
The death of Admiral Lord Nelson - in the moment of victory! (Horatio Nelson; Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Bt) NPG D12856
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
The overblown heroism of the best-selling prints commemorating the death of Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) were ripe for parody. Unsurprisingly the caricaturist James Gillray rose to the occasion. He alternately celebrated and lampooned Nelson and in this fine etching, published only weeks after Nelson's state funeral, he managed a clever combination of both. Everything is excessive: Britannia weeps a little too extravagantly as the dying admiral swoons, grey-faced in her arms, the angel's declaration of 'Immortality' is made to seem premature and... more
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