File:HMS 'Assistance' in the ice RMG BHC4239.tiff
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Thomas Sewell Robins: HMS 'Assistance' in the ice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: HMS 'Assistance' in the ice In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his two ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', disappeared in the Canadian Arctic during their search for the North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Many searches for them were mounted until the total loss of the ships and party was confirmed in 1859. This picture relates to Captain Horatio Austin's search expedition of 1850-51, in which Captain Erasmus Ommanney commanded HMS 'Assistance'. Ommanney called at Cape York in Greenland where he picked up a young Inuit guide called Kallihirua (see BHC2813) who led the ship north to check on a rumoured massacre of Franklin's men. This proved false and 'Assistance' wintered in the ice before returning to England in autumn 1851. Until the Museum bought this painting at auction it had been the property of St Augustine's College, which had received it as a bequest from Ommanney's son, Commander Erasmus Austin Ommanney MA. Robins is presumed to have painted it for Ommanney senior to commemorate his command of the 'Assistance' in the 1850-51 expedition. It is signed and dated 'T. S. Robins / 1853' lower left, and its bequest to St Augustine's by the younger Ommanney is recorded by an inscription on the frame. |
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Date |
1853 date QS:P571,+1853-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frame: 625 mm x 848 mm x 100 mm; Painting: height: 46 cm (18.1 in); width: 67.5 cm (26.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,46U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,67.5U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC4239 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15652 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |
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Identifier InfoField | Acquisition Number: OP1990-3 id number: BHC4239 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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