2-995-784 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Testimonial recently presented to Mr. H. Lewis, at Hull, 1860. 'The testimonial, which is adapted for the centre of a table or sideboard ornament, stands about two feet high; the base is oval in form, with four dolphins, and other marine emblems, having on each side a tablet, one bearing the arms of Mr. Lewis, and the corresponding one the inscription as follows: " Presented to J. Harvey Lewis, Esq., by upwards of one thousand electors and non-electors (chiefly working men) of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, as a small token of esteem for his unflinching advocacy of reform, and an expression of their confidence in the consistency of his political views - Hull, August, 1860." From the base springs a graceful column, with arabesque enrichments, supported by two figures of syrens, one playing the harp, the other blowing a conchshell. On the top of the column, resting on coralwork, is a silver shell of the nautilus form, on which sits another...syren; and it is further encircled by two admirably-executed basso-relievos, one representing the ship of Ulysses, the other, Neptune in his car subduing the waves. The whole is artistically executed, and is in every way creditable to the firm of Jacobs and Lucas, of Hull, who have produced it'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.