print;
satirical print;
broadside
- Museum number
- J,1.160
- Title
- Object: Saunders's ghost
- Description
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Sir Hugh Palliser (r.) sits at a round table; a horned demon with its arm round his neck holds up a large scroll inscribed "Five Charges against Keppel". On each side of him sits a man or demon paying out money on to the table: one is clothed in drapery covered with "fleur-de-lys" to imply that Palliser was in the pay of France at the Battle of Ushant. On the left. Britannia points out the scene to a companion who holds up his hands in horror. He wears a ribbon on which is inscribed, "Sir Cha. Saund." She says to him, "Was it for this you gave 5000£", alluding to a legacy of "£5,000" left by Saunders (d. 1775) to Keppel. The verses "Saunders Ghost, A Song to the Tune of "Welcome, Welcome, brother Debtor"" are an imitation of Glover's 'Admiral Hosier's Ghost'. They begin,
""Haste thee! Saunders, England calls thee,
"Awhile these blest abodes resign;
"Treach'rous friends and foes conspiring
"Threat my darling son and thine." c. 1779
Etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 316 millimetres
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Width: 202 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
That is, threaten Keppel, at this time very popular owing to the court martial on charges made by Palliser who was regarded as the tool of Sandwich. See BMSat 5536, 5537.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,1.160