HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail for anchoring
by BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (after)
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A fine pair of portraits of a splendid ship: these colour lithographs after original watercolours by Oswald Brierly were made by T. G. Dutton and printed by Day and Son for Ackermanns. The first print shows the Mæander in the Pacific, shortening sail in heavy weather; the caption dates the events to 9 July 1850; in the second the ship is coming slowly to anchor in Rio de Janeiro, and the scene is dated 9 June 1851. Both prints are dedicated to Henry Keppel, and the ship's officers.
Oswald Brierly (1817-1894) was a leading marine painter, and he had also studied naval architecture. He sailed on numerous expeditions including the Rattlesnake voyage surveying the Barrier Reef, with Benjamin Boyd on the Wanderer, and on the Galatea with the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. Brierly joined Henry Keppel on H.M.S. Mæander after his voyage on the Rattlesnake and visited New Zealand, Tahiti and South America, returning to England in July 1851. A description of the voyage is given in Admiral Keppel's A Sailor's Life Under Four Sovereigns (London, 1899).
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- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2711255
- Title
- HMS "Mæander" 44 guns, in a heavy squall [and] Shortening sail for anchoring
- Author
- BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (after)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ackermann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
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