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. 10 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image 'Lisbon. Decr. 1856'. The drawing depicts a two-masted Portuguese lateen-rigged boat, with brown sails, against a dark sky. Though shown on calm open water without a coast behind, it is presumably on the Tagus.
Image Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Image Credit
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Country
Portugal
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Travel & Transport
