File:Forcing a passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776 RMG BHC0420.tiff
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Thomas Mitchell: Forcing a passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776
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Thomas Mitchell |
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| Title |
Forcing a passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Forcing a passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776 The painting is a copy after the original rendering of the subject, a scene from the American Revolutionary War, by Dominic Serres the Elder. It shows HMS ‘Phoenix’, ‘Roebuck’ and ‘Tartar’, accompanied by two smaller vessels, forcing their way through a cheval-de-frise on the Hudson River with the Forts Washington and Lee and several batteries on both sides. The original painting was commissioned from Serres by the family of Hyde Parker, captain of the ‘Phoenix’ and commander of the mission to regain control over the waterway and cut Washington’s lines of communication across it. The painting combines elements of landscape and marine painting unified by the effects of gun smoke and clouds. In the foreground the river takes the full breadth of the picture. Upstream between the wooded banks the ships are breaching the obstruction in the water by forcing its junction with the shore on the right. |
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| Date | 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 710 mm x 1170 mm | |||||||||||||||||||
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BHC0420 |
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| Notes | Signed and dated 1780. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11912 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1931-36 id number: BHC0420 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||
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