Item 02: The Guardian Frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the Sou...
Item 02: The Guardian Frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the Sou...
Item 02: The Guardian Frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the South Seas, on which she struck, 24.th December 1789, in her Passage to Botany Bay, with the crew in the jolly boat / [possibly by Robert Dighton]
About this item
Full title
Date
1790 (printed beneath image "Published as the Act directs 22nd Sept. 1790"), No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London : Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles
Call Numbers
ML 1112 (b)
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 print - 25 x 35.2 cm (sight), appears to have been trimmed to plate marks - mounted with the drawing - mezzotint engraving with etching
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 02: The Guardian Frigate, commanded by Lieutenant Riou, surrounded by islands of ice in the South Seas, on which she struck, 24.th December 1789, in her Passage to Botany Bay, with the crew in the jolly boat / [possibly by Robert Dighton]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
It is not clear whether the watercolour ""The perilious situation of the Guardian Frigate as she appeared striking on the rocks of ice.."" is the original for, or a copy of, this mezzotint. The two images are virtually identical. Both are framed together at ML 1112.
Both the watercolour and the mezzotint are numbered ""599""
Digital order no:a1528528...
Signature / Inscriptions
Title is printed beneath image
Attributions / Conjectures
Possibly by Dighton, attributed to him by previous owner of work
Contextual Information
Source
Presented under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts, April 1994
Administrative / Biographical history
Originally collected by the Carrington Bowles family, from an album of drawings bound by them, ca. 1830. Sold by a descendant in Sotheby's rooms, 30/4/1953. Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, Thursday 10/3/88.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1112 (b)
Record Identifier
9gk5W4q9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gk5W4q9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
100062
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