Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral Lee-shore in the dumps
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James Gillray
1756-1815
Rodney triumphant, or, Admiral Lee-shore in the dumps
etching, hand colored
image: 232 x 340 mm; plate mark: 251 x 353 mm; sheet: 248 x 352 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2382
Published:
[London] : Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London, [31 May 1782]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
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