File:A log-book candidate in full sail to defeat a Wray of honesty. (BM 1868,0808.4848).jpg
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Summary
A log-book candidate in full sail to defeat a Wray of honesty.
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Attributed to: John Nixon
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| Title |
A log-book candidate in full sail to defeat a Wray of honesty. |
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| Description |
English: A naval officer in uniform stands on a large open book which serves as a boat; he holds a small mast to which three pages from the book are attached as sails. The book is inscribed "LOG BOOK", the sails (respectively) as "torn from", "the Log", and "Book". The officer says, "This vessel and Sails will never carry me into Westminster Port". In the upper left corner of the print North's head appears from clouds directing a blast at the sails of the log-book boat in order to send it to the shore (right), where two men are waiting to receive it. 11 June 1782
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1782 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.4848 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Attributed by E. Hawkins to Hixon. A satire on Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, afterwards Baron Hood in the peerage of Ireland, who was a candidate for Westminster at a by-election caused by Rodney's peerage. Hood was then at sea with Rodney, and his candidature was managed by his son, Henry Hood. One of the two men on shore is Sandwich, who holds out both hands saying, "Save your Wind Boreas for the Admiral has founder'd in is [sic] Voyage". Behind him stands a young man dressed as a naval officer, who says, "My Father was blown into this Harbour, but then the North Wind was in full Power". The other candidate for Westminster was Sir Cecil Wray, supported by Fox, who acted as chairman for his committee, [Pitt was expected by Shelburne to replace Rodney as M.P. for Westminster. This had the king's approval, 'Corr. of George III', vi, 37, 39, 20, 21 May.] Hood being attacked as a friend of Sandwich.["Two candidates are proposed by their different friends. Sir Cecil Wray by the Westminster Committee and Lord Hood by the friends of their Country unconnected with Party." 'Morning Herald', 5 June, 1782.] This support was so effective that Hood's candidature was withdrawn on 8 June. See addresses to the Electors of Westminster published as advertisements in the daily papers of 5-10 June 1782. The allusion to the Log Book, however, is a confusion (perhaps intentional) of Sir Samuel Hood with his younger brother Alexander Hood, who admitted that the Log Book of his ship the 'Robust' had been altered after the Court-Martial on Keppel had been ordered. Party faction at this time raged round the antagonism between Rodney, who belonged politically to the party of North and Sandwich, and had been supported by Sandwich, and Keppel. See Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, ii. 324-8. But cf. BMSat 5673. It was complained that the important part taken by Hood (and Drake) in the Battle of the Saints was scarcely mentioned "in the Public Prints". Cf. letter in the 'Public Advertiser'; 24 May 1782. The popularity which Hood ultimately gained by the victory secured his election at the head of the poll in the Westminster election of 1784, though Fox succeeded in defeating Sir Cecil Wray. For the log-book incident see BMSat 5536, 5537. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4848 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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