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Thomas Sewell Robins: HMS 'Assistance' in the ice  wikidata:Q50897042 reasonator:Q50897042
Artist
Thomas Sewell Robins  (1810–1880)  wikidata:Q7793882
 
Thomas Sewell Robins
Alternative names
T. S. Robins
Description painter
Date of birth/death 8 May 1810 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1880 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Devonport Edit this at Wikidata Kensington Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q7793882
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HMS 'Assistance' in the ice Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"HMS 'Assistance' in the ice Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"HMS 'Assistance' in the ice Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: HMS 'Assistance' in the ice

In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his two ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', disappeared in the Canadian Arctic during their search for the North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Many searches for them were mounted until the total loss of the ships and party was confirmed in 1859.

This picture relates to Captain Horatio Austin's search expedition of 1850-51, in which Captain Erasmus Ommanney commanded HMS 'Assistance'. Ommanney called at Cape York in Greenland where he picked up a young Inuit guide called Kallihirua (see BHC2813) who led the ship north to check on a rumoured massacre of Franklin's men. This proved false and 'Assistance' wintered in the ice before returning to England in autumn 1851.

Until the Museum bought this painting at auction it had been the property of St Augustine's College, which had received it as a bequest from Ommanney's son, Commander Erasmus Austin Ommanney MA. Robins is presumed to have painted it for Ommanney senior to commemorate his command of the 'Assistance' in the 1850-51 expedition. It is signed and dated 'T. S. Robins / 1853' lower left, and its bequest to St Augustine's by the younger Ommanney is recorded by an inscription on the frame.
Date 1853
date QS:P571,+1853-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Frame: 625 mm x 848 mm x 100 mm; Painting: height: 46 cm (18.1 in); width: 67.5 cm (26.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,46U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,67.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC4239
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15652
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Acquisition Number: OP1990-3
id number: BHC4239
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