File:A Trinity House brig RMG BHC1163.tiff
Original file (3,800 × 2,762 pixels, file size: 30.03 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Captions
Captions
Summary
[edit]anonymous: A Trinity House brig
  |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |  | |||||||||||
| Author |
British School, 19th century |
|||||||||||
| Title |
A Trinity House brig  |
|||||||||||
| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
|||||||||||
| Description |
English: A Trinity House brig This unsigned ship portrait probably dates to the 1830s or early 1840s at latest.
The rig is rather unusual, since while essentially that of a brig it includes a gaff to the foremast rather than a fore-staysail. This probably gave the ship great flexibility - perhaps particularly suitable to Trinity House requirements - either to proceed square-rigged including top-gallants or in effect with a more low-powered fore-and-aft schooner rig. As shown the ship is riding under easy sail on the starboard tack in a lively sea, not hove to but probably not moving forward significantly given that the two fore and aft sails are neither fully deployed: the fore gaff has been reduced by hauling down from the peak, and the main course or 'driver' aft 'scandalized' by hauling up the tack unusually high, though it was often done to a lesser degree to allow the helmsman a clear view forward through the opening produced. The vessel in the right distance appears to be a larger brig, with a cross-jack mainsail aft. It is surprising no-one has ever suggested an artist for this very competent, professional ship portrait. The Museum has another in which the sea is similar attributed to the Liverpool painter Samuel Walters, though that is also unsigned. His works usually include a geographical clue to the location however. [PvdM 8/11] |
|||||||||||
| Date | 19th century | |||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
|||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 535 mm x 760 mm | |||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||
| Current location | ||||||||||||
| Accession number |
BHC1163 |
|||||||||||
| References | ||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12655 | |||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
|||||||||||
| Identifier | id number: BHC1163 | |||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
Licensing
[edit]|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 20:04, 13 September 2017 |  | 3,800 × 2,762 (30.03 MB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12655 #53 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 3 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file: