File:Farewell to Nelson. Nelson is seen leaving England at Portsmouth on September 14th 1805 RMG A4028.tiff
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| Author |
Landeker and Brown; after Andrew Carrick Gow |
| Description |
English: Farewell to Nelson. Nelson is seen leaving England at Portsmouth on September 14th 1805 Signed by artist in plate. A print after the painting, ‘ “Farewell to Nelson”, Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 1805’, by Andrew Carrick Gow. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1904, the painting anticipated the first centenary of Nelson’s death as an occasion for national celebration. Nelson is shown descending the wooden steps at Portsmouth alone as he prepares to board the ship’s boat to be conveyed to his flagship, ‘Victory’. Preoccupied with the impending battle, he looks fixedly ahead and ignores the admiring crowd. Behind and above, the cheering crowds, held back by soldiers with bayonets, applaud and wave as they observe Nelson’s last walk on dry land. A girl scatters flower petals from the top of the steps. Although Gow places the scene at the usual point of departure, the Sally Port, this was probably incorrect owing to the pressure of the crowd. The sailors in the boat hold up the long oars to salute their admiral. The top of the picture is dominated by the looming presence of the battery wall, with the Union flag above the crowd underscoring a nationalistic reading. The print is a photogravure, which is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate to create a look combining photography with lithography. It is inscribed, ‘Nelson is seen leaving England at Portsmouth on 14 September 1805. Rather more than a month later he won the Battle of Trafalgar against England’s enemies but died in the very hour of victory’. In another version of the print the artist, a painter of genre and military subjects, has signed the plate of the photogravure, see PAI5832. |
| Date | circa 1906 |
| Dimensions | 695 x 433 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: Duplicates. Actions, 1798-1873. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/155698 |
| 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. |
| Identifier | id number: PAI5758 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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