BM12310-merchants-memorial-to-alley-croker-1814-0528
identifier:
BM12310-merchants-memorial-to-alley-croker-1814-0528
title:
The Merchants Memorial to Alley Croker
date:
September 1814
description:
An open pavilion on the shore represents the British Admiralty. The pavilion is raised above the ground by two steps and has a pediment. The Lords of the Admiralty inside are fast asleep, while Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty, angrily addresses a deputation of merchants approaching from the left. He sits in an armchair, legs crossed, holding a paper headed 'List of Ships taken by the Americans'. The two leading petitioners hold out respectively the 'Liverpool Petition' and 'Glasgow Petition'. Croker wards them off with outstretched arm. The Lords of the Admiralty, two civilians and two in naval uniform, are grouped round a circular table. A civilian reclines in an armchair, his gouty legs supported on a stool; he holds a paper. Beside them are fierce bulldogs, muzzled and heavily chained to staples, representing the Navy. On the wall are four pictures of naval battles. From the architrave is festooned drapery. Nelson, on a cloud, looks down at the sleeping men, with arm extended. Two of the petitioners talk together; one points angrily to the sea where a line of captured British ships is sailing off to the left ; nearer shore are the mast and spars of a sunken ship. Dialogue is in speech balloons above figures. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #12310
format:
25 cm x 35 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2011.55 1814
subject:
John Wilson Croker
subject:
Sir George John Stone Hope
subject:
Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
subject:
Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron and Viscount Nelson
subject:
Sir George Warrender
subject:
Joseph Sidney Yorke
subject:
Politics
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Cruikshank, George
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
