File:Destruction of Chuiapoo's pirate fleet, 30 September 1849 RMG BHC0632.tiff
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Destruction of Chuiapoo's pirate fleet, 30 September 1849 | ||||||||||||
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Nam-Sing |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | marine art | |||||||||||
Description |
English: Destruction of Chuiapoo's pirate fleet, 30 September 1849 The painting showing the destruction of Shap-'ng Tsai‘s pirate fleet at Cua Keum. Piracy had been practised in Chinese waters for centuries. With the large amounts of opium being smuggled into the area on British ships, piracy became even more profitable, and pirate fleets grew in numbers and in strength. Large numbers of Royal Navy vessels were consequently engaged on anti-piracy patrols. The event shown in this painting by a Hong Kong artist was the culmination of a campaign against the Chinese pirates which infested the Chinese coast. Just left of centre there is only one Royal Navy paddle-steamer in evidence, her fore part obscured by gunsmoke. The junk in the centre of the pirate line is blowing up, which suggests that this is the action of the brig ‘Columbine’. There is a good deal of flotsam and shot splashes around her, and over on the right are the two British ship’s boats of HMS ‘Hastings and HMS ‘Fury’. In the centre background a junk is blowing up and across the picture are pirate junks mostly on fire. Above the smoke and beyond is mountainous terrain of the Chinese coast of either Harlem or Bias Bay. This painting was commissioned by Dugald McEwan the Assistant Surgeon of the ‘Hastings’. |
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Date |
19th century date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 305 mm x 455 mm; Frame: 390 mm x 540 mm | |||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC0632 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12124 | |||||||||||
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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: OP1975-3 id number: BHC0632 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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