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品名（中）	不幸的幽灵穿越冥河：在基地浮雕
品名（英）	Unhappy Ghosts Crossing the Styx: In Base-relief
入馆年号	2014年，2014.757.5(16)
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	John Doyle【1797 至 1868】【爱尔兰人】
创作年份	公元 1834
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 英寸 (29.9 × 44.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这部讽刺作品引用了维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》（VI.126）中的一段话来评论当代政治。威廉四世饰演卡戎，将前大臣运送到冥河上，并将他们的公职印章作为通行费。墨尔本勋爵已经降落并走开，邓坎农勋爵将他的印章交给摆渡人，紧随其后的是帕默森勋爵和托马斯斯普林赖斯。威灵顿公爵在船尾，作为墨丘利，阻止布鲁厄姆勋爵逃跑。公爵引用维吉尔的话提醒这位前财政大臣，跌倒比再次站起来要容易得多："facilis descensus Averni"，指的是大臣最近的巡回演讲，他失去了国王的青睐。作为回应，财政大臣惊呼"Flectere si nequeo superos， Acheronta movebo"，这可以自由地翻译为——如果我不能制服上议院，我将在伯明翰政治联盟中引起骚动。
介绍（英）	This satire uses a passage from Virgil's Aeneid (VI.126) to comment on contemporary politics. William IV is cast as Charon ferrying former ministers over the Styx and taking their seals of office as tolls. Lord Melbourne has landed and walks away, Lord Duncannon hands his seal to the ferryman, followed by Lord Palmerson and Thomas Spring Rice. The Duke of Wellington at the stern, as Mercury, prevents Lord Brougham from escaping. Quoting Virgil, the Duke reminds the ex-Chancellor how much easier it is to fall than to rise again: "facilis descensus Averni," a reference to the Chancellor's recent speaking tour that lost him the king's favor. In response the Chancellor exclaims "Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo," which can be freely translated as - if I cannot subdue the House of Lords, I will stir up a commotion in the Birmingham Political Union.