File:The 'Pitt' engaging the 'St Louis', 29 September 1758 RMG BHC0385.tiff
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Summary
The 'Pitt' engaging the 'St Louis', 29 September 1758
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| Author |
Lawson Dunn |
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| Title |
The 'Pitt' engaging the 'St Louis', 29 September 1758  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
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| Description |
English: The 'Pitt' engaging the 'St Louis', 29 September 1758 The action between the English East Indiaman the ‘Pitt’ and French ship ‘St Louis’ was a minor event which occurred off Fort St David, near Pondicherry. When Commodore Wilson, the captain of the ‘Pitt’ tried to engage the ‘St Louis’ in blowy weather he was unable to operate his lower tier of guns. So he was forced to break off the engagement after a brief exchange and escaped by out-sailing the Frenchman. The painting shows the two ships firing into each other, with the ‘Pitt’ on the left. The painting is inscribed ‘Commodore Wilson of the ‘Pitt’ engaging the ‘St Louis’ French ship of the line belonging to the Squadron of Monsieur de Ache on the 28th Septem 1759’, although the date written is incorrect. |
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| Date | 18th century | |||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 962 mm x 1216 mm x 48 mm;Painting: 815 mm x 1015 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC0385 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11877 | |||||||||||
| 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. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1936-47 id number: BHC0385 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
Licensing
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| current | 05:59, 3 October 2017 |  | 4,312 × 3,226 (39.8 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11877 #2161 |
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