Painting, Launch at Deptford Dockyard by John Cleveley the Elder, c. 1750. Oil on canvas; 106 x 180 cm in gilt frame 119 x 193 x 12 cm. One of several launching scenes executed 1747-c. 1755. Although unsigned and undated, this work is closely related to Cleveley's depiction of the launching of St. Albans, dated 1748, now in the National Maritime Museum London. The 74-gun warship about to be floated is almost identical and probably from the same Naval Establishment specifications. The smaller 40-gun ship still in the stocks is possibly the Rochester, launched 1749. Of the two men-of-war at anchor, that with the lower deck portholes is a sixth rate 20-gun, 1741. Smaller craft witnessing the launch include longboat, Admiralty yacht and Thames wherries.
Details
- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1866-9/1
- Materials:
- gilt, oil paint on canvas
- Measurements:
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frame: 1190 mm x 1930 mm x 120 mm,
image: 1060 mm x 1800 mm
- type:
- oil painting
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- oil painting - visual work
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