File:(Plate I, illustrating the poem) 'Our Fathers' (1913) by Captain Ronald A. Hopwood, RN RMG PW2158.jpg

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Dunthorne, Robert [publisher]; Wyllie, William Lionel [artist & engraver]
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English: [Plate I, illustrating the poem] 'Our Fathers' [1913] by Captain Ronald A. Hopwood, RN

Mounted with PAF2157 and part of a set comprising PAF2157-PAF2161. Signed by the artist in pencil, bottom left, below the image (which bears the number [plate] I, also bottom left). The full title reads 'OUR FATHERS / To the Memory of the Nameless Killed and Wounded/ By Captain Ronald A. Hopwood, R.N.' The seaplane (top left) appears to be of the type built 1912-16. The battleship (top right) seems to be a unit of the 'King George V' or 'Iron Duke'-classes - - possibly based on Wyllie's studies of the 'Audacious' , a 'KG V'-class ship; see for example PAF1848. The sailing ships at centre and botttom are Elizabethan, the image at the bottom representing the chase of the Spanish Armada in the Channel in 1588. For further information on the poem see PAF2157. The text on this plate runs (with the 1916 punctuation):

Though the seaplane, soaring upward, may betray the submarine To the oil-fed super-Dreadnought, steaming nervously between; In pursuance of her Mission, she'll be well advised to shun Any interfering cruiser with the newest seaplane gun.

Thus does Science rule the revels that our Fathers used to know, While the sea, that bred our Fathers, marks the fashions come and go, Humours each, but sometimes wonders if the Truth were better sought In the latest words of Science, or the deeds our Fathers wrought.

Quaint and crude our Fathers' methods, and their ships and guns the same;

Watch them "warping out of Plimouth" when the Great Armada came ....
Date circa 1917
date QS:P571,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dimensions Sheet: 367 x 256 mm; Mount: 557 x 405 mm
Notes Box Title: Wyllie: 1931 (2). Etchings with cards and photographs.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/126293
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