File:The coolie ship Volga II RMG BHC2331.tiff
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Summary
anonymous: The coolie ship 'Volga II'
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Chinese School, 19th century |
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| Title |
The 'coolie' ship 'Volga II'  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Description |
English: The coolie ship Volga II Ship portrait. Oil painting Coolie ships were for transporting indentured emigrants. http://guyanachronicle.com/2009/05/05/the-coolie-ships. SV Volga, on voyage from Calcutta with coolies, ran aground and was wrecked on Vigie Point, near Port Castries, St. Lucia on the 10th December 1893. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?208539 The coolie ship Volga II |
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| Date | 19th century | |||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 648 mm x 902 mm; Frame: 855 mm x 1110 mm x 100 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC2331 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/13807 | |||||||||||
| 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: OP1978-3 id number: BHC2331 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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| current | 18:41, 16 September 2017 |  | 6,658 × 4,802 (91.47 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/13807 #791 |
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