File:The Apparition (BM 1868,0808.4008).jpg
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[edit]The Apparition
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Title |
The Apparition |
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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 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4008 |
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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. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 2,520 px |
Image height | 3,798 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:44, 15 January 2008 |
File change date and time | 11:46, 15 January 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:46, 15 January 2008 |