File:An American Ship in Distress RMG BHC1210.tiff
Original file (3,177 × 4,000 pixels, file size: 36.36 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
Summary
John Whichelo: An American Ship in Distress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Title | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | marine art | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: An American Ship in Distress Although it was painted five years earlier, this may possibly be the work exhibited by Whichelo at the Royal Academy in 1816 with the title, 'The packet and an American ship coming into Margate in a storm with pilot boats going out to the relief of a ship in distress'. Alternatively it could be an early version of the same subject. It shows an American ship in the centre, perilously close to the shore. Her fore-topgallant mast has snapped off and though her sails have been partly taken in she appears dangerously over-canvassed for her situation, as she runs in before a easterly gale. She is also flying the American flag upside-down to indicate that she is in distress. Crossing hazardously close under her bows is a small cutter, heading into harbour on the port tack. This is the 'packet' of the 1816 title, one of the regular passenger smacks which served Margate from London. Its name, 'DUKE OF KENT', is inscribed on the mainsail, which was a fairly common feature of such vessels. A number of small boats are in the water on the far left. In the foreground a small two-masted pilot lugger with five men on board is shown pitching in the stormy sea, as her men hoist sail. A figure at the stern, almost certainly the pilot, points and appears to be issuing instructions. The jetty is crowded with watching figures and several other ships are visible in the distance on the right. These include one apparently aground on one of the Thames estuary shoals off Margate, where ships were fairly often wrecked. The sky is heavily laden with clouds and rain falls on the right. The lighter part of the sky highlights features on the cutter, in the manner of 17th-century Dutch storm scenes. Margate was on the route for ocean-going ships making for London and the painting presumably records a contemporary incident, though not one of which other record has yet been found. The artist may also have used the subject to hint at another reading, since the date of the work is the year before President James Madison declared war on Britain (1812-14). This brief conflict arose over tensions from British high-handedness in searching foreign ships and impressing non-British seamen, including American citizens, to prevent neutrals profiting from trade with Napoleonic France, then under British blockade. The artist, best known as a watercolourist, was a pupil of John Varley and became a marine painter, landscapist and London topographer. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810 when he was described as 'Marine and Landscape Painter to HRH the Prince Regent'. The year of this painting, 1811, was a significant date for the Prince Regent too since it was just after his assumption of the Regency for his father, George III. The work is signed 'C J M Whichelo 1811', bottom right. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1811 date QS:P571,+1811-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Frame: 825 mm x 716 mm x 110 mm;Painting: 610 mm x 508 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
BHC1210 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | Signed and dated 1811. Frame needs attention. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12701 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Identifier InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1927-335 id number: BHC1210 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
Licensing
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. |
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
image/tiff
a5f3861fe69de67e104d84ab0c7f775275038a8a
38,124,140 byte
4,000 pixel
3,177 pixel
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 04:34, 4 October 2017 | 3,177 × 4,000 (36.36 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1811), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12701 #2287 |
File usage
The following 3 pages use this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
Width | 3,177 px |
---|---|
Height | 4,000 px |
Bits per component |
|
Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Image data location | 140 |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 4,000 |
Bytes per compressed strip | 38,124,000 |
Data arrangement | chunky format |