The 'Dreadnought' off Greenwich
Artist: Clarkson Stanfield (1793 - 1867)
Location: Eton College
Date: 1850 - 1857
Materials: watercolour
Dimensions: 23 x 33 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £135 (Total: £135)
Vendor: Spink
Review number: 2313 (1968)
Description:
Between 1830-57, the seaman's hospital ship, the 'Dreadnought' was used as a seaman's hospital and lay off Greenwich. Bought as a memorial by parents and friends of a young member of The Art Fund and an Old Etonian killed in a car crash in 1967, Adrian Mark Palmer. Picture chosen because the family had been seafaring.
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