Description
This album covers Edward Gennys Fanshawe's Baltic service in command of HMS 'Cossack' during the Crimean War, August 1854 - August 1855, and his brief transfer to the 'Hastings' in the Baltic and latterly at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, 1855-56, though on her return to England in late 1855 he was invalided ashore until rejoining the ship at Queenstown in January 1856. It also covers his command of the 'Centurion' in the Mediterranean from May 1856 to June 1858, when he was again invalided home. Also included are holiday drawings made in Scotland in 1843 and 1883, Switzerland in 1877 and 1880, and a single drawing of Moulmein, Burma, made in 1846 during his Eastern posting as Commander in the 'Cruizer', 1844-46.
No. 7 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The ancient 30-metre round tower in the middle of the village of Cloyne, Co. Cork, Ireland. A monastery at Cloyne was founded by St. Colman mac Lenene who died in 604. The tower, of uncertain but early date, is practically all that remains of it and it is is one of only two surviving in Co. Cork. Though only now a village, Cloyne still also has a cathedral as further legacy of its monastic past, where the celebrated Bishop Berkeley was bishop for 30 years. This is a drawing Fanshawe made on a foray ashore while stationed at Queenstown in the 'Hastings'.
Image Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Image Credit
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Location
Cloyne Round Tower, Cloyne, County Cork, Republic of Ireland
Country
Republic of Ireland
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
