File:The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 RMG BHC0517.tiff
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[edit]Thomas Whitcombe: The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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English: The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 A painting showing an important naval engagement during the French Revolutionary War, 1793-1802. On 19 May 1798, Napoleon sailed from Toulon on his hazardous adventure to Egypt, capturing Malta en route. On realizing this, Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson initially looked for the French at Alexandria, but when he didn’t find them he sailed back to Syracuse in Sicily to reposition before returning to Alexandria. There, on 1 August, he received a signal that the French fleet had been sighted anchored in Aboukir Bay, 15 miles east of Alexandria. Thence Nelson headed, appearing off Aboukir Island at 17.30. Despite the failing daylight, his ships immediately attacked the head of the unprepared French fleet at anchor, commanded by Admiral Brueys. Three ships rounded the bows of the leading French ships, one passed between the first and second ship and another between the sixth and seventh. Whitcombe’s painting shows the beginning of the action at about 19.00, viewed from the north. On the extreme right the French battery on the Island of Aboukir fires on the nearest British ships. To the left of this is the anchored French line with the ‘Guerrier’ at the head with the British ‘Zealous’ engaging her on her right. Astern of the ‘Guerrier’, the ‘Conquérant’ is engaged with the British ‘Goliath’. The next French ship in the line is the ‘Spartiate’, almost obscured by Nelson’s flagship the ‘Vanguard’, identifiable by the blue flag at the mizzen and the three Union jacks. Beyond is the British ‘Theseus’. The British ‘Minotaur’ masks the French ‘Aquilon’ while to the left of her is the French ‘Peuple Souverain’ engaging the British ‘Orion’ being raked by the ‘Leander’. Next left, the British ‘Defence’ and Swiftsure’ engage the French flagship ‘Franklin’. Beyond and to the left the British ‘Bellerophon’ engages the ‘Orient’. In the extreme left background the British ‘Majestic’ engages the ‘Tonnant’ and in the extreme left foreground the British ‘Culloden’ is aground. The painting is signed and dated ‘T Whitcombe 1798’ and was presented by the Earl of Yarborough to the Greenwich Hospital Collection in 1855. |
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circa 1798 date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 889 mm x 1257 mm; Frame: 1135 mm x 1495 mm x 100 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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BHC0517 |
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Notes | Signed and dated 1798. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 InfoField | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH153 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 entry number: BHC0517 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC0517 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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