Image: A consistent character. (BM J,1.127)

Description: A portrait of Lord Effingham standing on a terrace in profile to the left pointing to a flight of steps (left) leading upwards. The steps are flanked by a low wall on which is inscribed "I can now serve my country with honor". Beneath this, and between two pointing hands, is inscribed, "The true road to preferment [sic]". On each step is inscribed a word, these are, reading upwards, "Sincerity", "Plain-dealing", "Honesty", "Justice", "[Co]untry", "[Reli]gion", "...y [?liberty]". An open book lies at the foot of the steps, inscribed "Patriotism upon Principle". Effingham holds a baton in his left hand; in front of him, on the low wall, is his military hat, against which leans a long wand of office. He is plainly dressed, wears his own hair, but has a sword and ruffled shirt, which recall the "mot" of Burke, when Effingham changed his habitually plain manner of dress for the court-suit and sword worn by those in office, that he was wearing the coat in which he had been killed in the Gordon Riots; Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, i. 250-1. In the distance, and below the terrace on which Effingham stands, a battle is in progress, indicated by men in close rank on a minute scale, with a British flag, and clouds of smoke. A large sun is rising above the horizon (right) inscribed "Pro Patria non sibi." 4 June 1782 Etching
Title: A consistent character.
Credit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-127
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