3-034-660 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Admiral Lord Nelson, from the picture in the National Portrait Gallery at South Kensington, 1871. Engraving of a painting by Henry Füger. 'Oct. 21, 1805, was the day of his glorious death in the great sea-fight of Trafalgar; and it would be no unworthy errand, on either of these days, to go and look with affectionate reverence upon the hero's blue coat, enshrined in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, and pierced with the bullet-hole through which his noble life was smitten with the fatal wound. May England never want the inspiring presence of such men in the hour of battle-danger! Their spirit and the influence of their example should be ever present among us, in time of peace as in time of war. For England at all times "expects every man to do his duty!".' From "Illustrated London News", 1871.