<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>All hands to a court martial [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>April 26, 1745, publish'd according to act of Parliament.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A satire on Admirals Thomas Mathews and Richard Lestock and other officers who had been engaged in the fight off Toulon, and who subsequently became subjects of a Court Martial.  A street scene, on the left a portico, from which a goup of persons is led by the figure of Britannia towards a dockyard; with letterpress inscriptions, verses in four columns</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Four columns of verse below image begins: Shall British glory rise again, and wipe the degen'rate stain ...</dc:description><dc:description>Later state, with publisher's name burnished from plate. Cf. No. 2682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: portico of the Admiralty's Building -- Admiralty: satire on admiralty inscribed on portico -- British Lion -- Personifications: Justice -- Trade -- Symbols: Hand of Providence -- Lightning bolts -- Reference to the Battle of Toulon, 1744 -- Reference to the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 -- Court martial -- Emblems: laurel wreath -- Balance -- Weapons: sticks as cudgels -- Architectural details: busts -- Naval uniforms -- Gates: dockyard at Deptford -- Reference to Bremen and Verden.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>