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A consistent character.
Description
English: A portrait of Lord Effingham standing on a terrace in profile to the left pointing to a flight of steps (left) leading upwards. The steps are flanked by a low wall on which is inscribed "I can now serve my country with honor". Beneath this, and between two pointing hands, is inscribed, "The true road to preferment [sic]". On each step is inscribed a word, these are, reading upwards, "Sincerity", "Plain-dealing", "Honesty", "Justice", "[Co]untry", "[Reli]gion", "...y [?liberty]". An open book lies at the foot of the steps, inscribed "Patriotism upon Principle". Effingham holds a baton in his left hand; in front of him, on the low wall, is his military hat, against which leans a long wand of office. He is plainly dressed, wears his own hair, but has a sword and ruffled shirt, which recall the "mot" of Burke, when Effingham changed his habitually plain manner of dress for the court-suit and sword worn by those in office, that he was wearing the coat in which he had been killed in the Gordon Riots; Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, i. 250-1. In the distance, and below the terrace on which Effingham stands, a battle is in progress, indicated by men in close rank on a minute scale, with a British flag, and clouds of smoke. A large sun is rising above the horizon (right) inscribed "Pro Patria non sibi." 4 June 1782
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Depicted people Representation of: Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 203 millimetres
Width: 175 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,1.127
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham (1747-91), one of the Patriots, was very popular for having resigned his commission rather than fight in America. This resignation was perhaps not unconnected with his unsuccessful attempt to obtain promotion, see his letter of 1 June 1774 to the king complaining that he was only a captain of foot. 'Corr. of George III', iii. 107-8. Between 1770 and 1782 he had signed seventeen protests in the 'Lords Journals' (G. E. C, 'Complete Peerage'). On the formation of the Rockingham Ministry he was made Lord Treasurer of the Household and given a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel. As he carried his official wand as Treasurer with his Deputy Earl Marshal's baton (as he is here represented) he was called the 'Devil on two sticks'. Wraxall, 'op. et loc. cit.' See BMSat 6061.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-127
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