Gillray ; James. Dido in Despair. Original antique engraving from Gillray’s original copper plate. Published for the Bohn Edition of 1851. Later colour.

Lady Hamilton is not illustrated as the beauty of the day. Rather a rotund woman with signs of the pox. She is in despair as her lover sails away to take command of the British fleet that will inflict destruction on the combined Franco Spanish ships off Cape Trafalgar. Meanwhile her husband sleeps soundly with his favourite antiquities scattered around the bedroom.