‘Things as they have been …things as they now are’
In 1814 Cochrane was tried and convicted of fraud on the London
Stock Exchange. He was jailed for a year, fined and dismissed from
the Royal Navy in disgrace, his knighthood stripped from him. He
spent the rest of his life striving to clear his name of a crime he
always denied.
This before-and-after image from an 1815 cartoon splits Cochrane
down the middle. On the left is the British hero, on the right the
disgraced convict. The symbols of his broken reputation lie around
him.
To see the fine detail in the picture and find out more about
the different objects and symbols, zoom in on the image
below. Use the controls in the bottom right hand corner of the
image to zoom in and out, or click or scroll in and out using your
mouse. Click on the blue buttons to reveal more information about
the meaning of the objects in the picture.
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