File:Charles Frederick de Brocktorff – Memorial to a Fallen Sailor – Rock Gate Cemetery (Malta).jpg

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Memorial to a Fallen Sailor – Rock Gate Cemetery (Malta)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Charles de Brocktorff
Title
Memorial to a Fallen Sailor – Rock Gate Cemetery (Malta)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Memorial Inscription reads: Sacred – to the memory of:- George eldest son of – Capt Langford. R.N. – Midshipman – of H.M.S. Cambrian – Who departed this life – The 15th of Febuary 1825 – Aged 21 Years.

Signed: C. F. de Brocktorff. in black ink (lower left).

The ramparts are the right flank of Firenzuola Bastion, one of the main bastions of the Santa Margherita enceinte, Bormla (Malta), begun in 1638 and completed in the 1720s. The cemetery was located in the ditch of this fortified enceinte, and known as the Rock Gate Cemetery.
Date circa 1825
date QS:P571,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium black ink pencil, and watercolour
Dimensions 10 in x 13 1/2 in (25.4 cm x 34.3 cm.)
Libraries of Malta
Source/Photographer https://www.radnorshire-fine-arts.co.uk/product/charles-frederick-de-brocktorff-memorial-to-a-fallen-sailor-rock-gate-cemetary-malta/
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