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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Elizabeth Darchery
Title
Rodney triumphant-or-Admiral Lee Shore in the dumps.
Description
English: A representation of Rodney's victory causing dismay to the new Ministry. Rodney, standing on the sea-shore, receives the submission of de Grasse, who bows before him in profile to the left, holding down the French flag so that Rodney stands on it, while in his right hand he holds out the hilt of his sword to Rodney. De Grasse is excessively lean and elegant, frogs are jumping from his coat-pocket. Behind him stand ranks of emaciated French sailors with expressions of distress, their hands tied behind them; they wear bag-wigs, ruffled shirts, long trousers, with bare ankles and wooden shoes. A baron's coronet is suspended above Rodney's head, inscribed “from Jove”, implying that the honour did not come from the Ministry. Behind him is a procession of cheering sailors, waving their hands and shouting “Huzza”. Two of them carry chests, one inscribed “Lewis d'or's”, the other “D° N° 26”, which they have just brought on shore. Behind them are ships in full sail, the nearer ones with the British flag flying above the French flag, showing that they are prizes. A ship's boat rows towards the shore with the Ensign flying above the fleur-de-lys, in it a minute figure stands waving his hat.


In front of a dilapidated building (left) stand the politicians. Fox, Keppel and the Duke of Richmond are in consultation in the foreground watching Rodney's triumph with expressions of displeasure. Fox, with a fox's head in profile to the right, says “Dam the French for coming in his way say I”. Keppel (Admiral Lee Shore) stands with his hands folded, thumbs touching, saying, “This is more than we expected: more than we wished”. Richmond (Master-General of the Ordnance) says, “Tis the last Fleet he shall have the opportunity of beating however”. Behind them North and Sandwich walk together; North in profile to the left, his right hand holding Sandwich by the arm, points to Keppel saying, “Ha! Ha! Ha! behold Augustus ye 27th”, an allusion to Keppel's action off Ushant on 27 Apr. 1778 for which he was court-martialled. Sandwich says, “Ha! Ha! Ha! - new measures - send a Pig to supercede a Lyon”. On the wall of the building behind them and above the heads of Richmond and Keppel is a representation of a ship, bottom upwards in a hatchment, with the motto “27th July, Gloria”. Below the ship is an axe inscribed “Rusty”, implying that Keppel deserved execution for his conduct. Plaster is coming off the wall, showing bricks. 31 May 1782


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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 345 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.80
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) When the new Ministry came into office, Vice-Admiral Hugh Pigot was made a Lord of the Admiralty, soon afterwards promoted admiral, appointed Commander-in-Chief in the W. Indies to supersede Rodney, whom the Ministry had determined to disgrace. He actually sailed on 18 May, the day that news of Rodney's victory reached London. An attempt to stop him as a concession to public opinion was too late and he took over the command at Jamaica on 13 July. This was a political appointment of a quite inadequate officer. “Public dissatisfaction” was “loudly and generally expressed in every part of London”. Wraxall, ‘Memoirs’, 1884, iii. 127. [Keppel told the king on 18 May “He thought it absolutely necessary that some ostensible reward should be bestowed on Sir George Rodney, the more so as he did not wish this event should stop Admiral Pigot's being sent to relieve him ..." George III to Shelburne, ‘Corr. of George III’, vi, p. 33.] The chests of Lewis d'ors represent the thirty-six money chests captured in the ‘Ville de Paris’, the French flag-ship. Stanhope, ‘Hist. of England’, 1858, vii. 177.

One of four satires by Gillray on Rodney's victory as a blow to the Ministry, see BMSat 5996, 5997, 6001. A special importance attaches to them since it was actually argued in Parliament that “popularity which, running against him [Rodney], had occasioned his recall, should, now that it flows in his favour, prevent it”. (Lord Nugent) 30 May, ‘Parl. Hist’, xxiii. 79-80. The recall of Rodney, the grudging reward to him contrasted with Keppel's Viscountcy (24 Apr. 1782) and the commission to Pigot, were a blow to the popularity of the Ministry. For Keppel as Admiral Lee Shore, see BMSat 5570, 5626, 5650, 5658. For Rodney at St. Eustatius, the cause of his (alleged) unpopularity, see BMSat 5842. Rodney, however, was a popular hero for his defeat and capture of the Spanish Admiral Langara, 16 Jan. 1780, followed by the relief of Gibraltar, see BMSat 5646-8, 5710. Prints of this action had been published on 15 Apr. 1782 (after Luny) and on 6 May 1782 (after Paton). For the battle of the Saints see BMSat 5991, &c. For the nature of the “public exultation” in London at the victory see Wraxall, ‘Memoirs’, 1884, ii. 319 ff. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 36.
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