Britannia

**Britannia**
	national personification of the United Kingdom
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Sculpture of Britannia by Jean Philippe "Turnkey" Giffard (1826-1892) on pub "The Grapes" / "La Grappe de Verjus" (now "The Lamplighter") in St. Helier, Jersey
Caricature of Britannia being flogged (c. 1770)
Britannia Airways Boeing 767 with depiction of Britannia on the livery
The Armada Memorial in Plymouth depicting Britannia
King George V's famed racing yacht HMY Britannia in the 1890s

Greek and Roman periods

Reverse of sestertius of Antoninus Pius (Template:Reign), marked: britannia (and s·c·) showing Britannia with shield and spear in the characteristic reclining pose

Reverse of a denarius of Carausius (Template:Reign), ruler of the Roman Britannic Empire, showing Britannia (left) welcoming the emperor with the words veni expectate (Template:Literal translation)

British revival

Britannia mourning the death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson at the victorious Battle of Trafalgar in a cartoon by James Gillray]

Renaissance and British Empire

Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 engraved by Henry Moses after Benjamin West. Loyalists seek aid from Britannia after their expulsion from the United States.

Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis by James Gillray (1793). William Pitt the Younger, Chancellor of the Exchequer, steers the ship Constitution carrying Britannia.