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The launch of the Honourable East India Company's ship 'Edinburgh'

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London | CC BY-NC-ND

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Date

ca.1825

Artist

William John Huggins (1781-1845)

Collection

Royal Museums Greenwich

Image Link

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-148364

Description

Drawing entitled 'The launch of the Honourable East India Company's ship ''Edinburgh''.., 1825. The title derives from the lithographs made from the drawing by Huggins's assistant and (from 1834) son-in-law Edward Duncan, and published in August 1827. The 'Edinburgh' was built by Wigram & Green at Blackwall and launched on 9 November 1825. The ship on the stocks on the left is the 'Abercrombie Robinson' which was launched the following year. The view is from a boat in the Thames looking roughly north, with the Blackwall mast house visible above the 'Edinburgh' on the edge of the Brunswick Dock. There appears to be a yacht with a figurehead representing 'Fame' and flying the Scottish saltire on the left, and a Trinity House yacht in the right foreground. This is a particularly good and well preserved example of a watercolour by Huggins.

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CC BY-NC-ND

Image Credit

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Location

Blackwall, London, England

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Category

Travel & Transport

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