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(Recto) Two pencil sketches, of a Thames barge and of the 'St Lawrence or old Shannon' at Sheerness, with two colour drawings of country scenes, and mixing notes on watercolours; (verso) HMS 'Trafalgar' at Sheerness, 16 RMG PZ0850-002
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(Recto) Two pencil sketches, of a Thames barge and of the 'St Lawrence or old Shannon' at Sheerness, with two colour drawings of country scenes, and mixing notes on watercolours; (verso) HMS 'Trafalgar' at Sheerness, 16 October 1850, and and a tree study
No. 2 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).
(Recto) the two watercolours, probably imaginary, show houses in countryside and a figure on a road, with a distant town and hills beyond. One pencil sketch shows a swim-head, ketch-rigged Thames barge; the other, a near starboard broadside view of a frigate with a long quarter-deck, is inscribed above 'St Lawrence or old Shannon' and was drawn at Sheerness, probably on 'June 20th [18]51', the date inscribed lower left. For the 'Shannon', whose name was officially changed to 'St Lawrence' in May 1844, see the separate 1844 watercolour, PAF6175. The ink notes on the sheet relate to mixing watercolours, especially for marine views. A further pencil note, top right, is a memo for 'Newman's Moist Colours / Gutta Percha Cups'. The supply of wet rather than dry (cake) watercolour pigment was still fairly new at this time and in part dependent on convenient new ways of selling it.
(Verso) On the left, a pencil study inscribed in the lower left, 'H.M.S. Trafalgar, Sheerness / Honble / Capt. Stopford /Oct 16th 50'. It shows the ship moored in the Medway, in harbour rig, from astern off the starboard quarter, with a boat boom out to starboard, a mooring buoy in the foreground, and a ketch-rigged Thames barge under her port quarter. The pencil and watercolour tree study to the right is entirely separate, and probably done near Teignmouth in July 1850 with similar drawings on adjacent pages.
HMS 'Trafalgar' at Sheerness, 16 October 1850, and and a tree study
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