File:The high road to preferment. (BM 1868,0808.5888).jpg
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[edit]The high road to preferment.
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Attributed to: Frederick George Byron
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| Title |
The high road to preferment. |
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| Description |
English: A scene on the quarter-deck of a frigate : the King (left) and the Queen (right) hold a rope over which a gentleman is leaping with an expression of grim determination. Four men, one wearing a ribbon, stand behind the King; two princesses and an elderly lady behind the Queen. Beside her is a gentleman who urges on the candidate for preferment. A grinning sailor (right) stands at the top of the companion ladder leading to the deck. An awning covers the deck. In the background is the sea and (right) the adjacent coast. 26 September 1789
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Princess Augusta Sophia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1789 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.5888 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the sea-trips taken by the royal family during their visit to Weymouth (usually in the Southampton frigate), cf. BMSats 7547, 7549. See 'Ann. Reg., 1789', pp. 261-6. Also (probably), on the four promotions in the peerage of 18 Aug., one being that of Mount-Edgcumbe, see BMSat 7555. Ibid., p. 240. ............................................................................ The print has been attributed to F G Byron by David Alexander (personal communication, February 2009) who considers that the print was etched, and probably designed, by Byron as the title is in the capitals found on prints by him. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5888 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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