Heading to a printed broadside, see Nos. 12799, 12802. Below the title: 'A Poetical Epistle, from Brother John in England, to Brother Pat in Ireland [cf. Nos. 9517, 10011, &amp;c.].—To the Copper-Gilt Fringe of Mr. Pitt's old Mantle [cf. No. 10992]—to the Brazen Projects and Gilt Pockets of his Admirers—to the Manufacturers and Consumers of Gilt Gingerbread. . . . this View, peculiarly befitting, and forming a Counterpart to his "Bomb Uncovered" [see No. 12800], is dutifully Dedicated'. The hull of a three-masted vessel, showing the stern and the port side. It is elaborately decorated with allegorical figures and with a large Garter star. The verses describe the luxurious fittings, gilding, and furniture. The second of seventeen verses:
<p><br>If you knew how immense
<br>Was the building expence—
<br>And this when the nation was failing—
<br>Of a place for this B—'m'—
<br>You would think it a hum,
<br>That it must have a vessel to sail in.
<br>A prose description of the 'Royal Sovereign' follows, launched from Deptford Yard on 8 Aug. 1816 'having been newly copper-bottomed and entirely new 'gilt' and fitted up throughout ... at an estimated expence of upwards of Sixty Thousand Pounds . . .!'
<br>c. August 1816
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<br>Hand-coloured woodcut with letterpress text
1816<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1816-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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