Captain Aubrey s Commands Online now
Description
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The edition of 250 on canvas by Geoff Hunt PPRSMA
Signed in ink and varnished, with 2-inch margins all around.
Image size: 17 x 25.5 inches (43cm x 65cm)
Geoff Hunt in his book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt writes:
This picture brings together vessels from different stages of Captain Aubrey s career in the Royal Navy. To the right is the 14-gun brig-sloop Sophie of 1801, his first independent command as Master and Commander . A tiny vessel by modern standards, only 78 feet long on the gun deck – scarcely more than a yacht – nevertheless her crew numbered between 80 and 90 all told.
At the middle left is the 28-gun frigate Surprise, the ex-French corvette L Unité, aboard which so many of Aubrey s adventures are set.
In the middle distance looms the 74-gun battleship Bellona; while the ship at the extreme left distance, if an identity is required, is the 50-gun Leopard, lagging behind the others as 50-gun ships were prone to do.
All these vessels had a real existence in the Royal Navy under those names, except Sophie. The vessels carry the appropriate flags for their respective stages in Aubrey s career; The Bellona, for example, carries a commodore s broad pennant at the main. As for the setting, it is the Mediterranean, off whose rocky and scented coasts Aubrey spent so much of his career.
Additional Information
| Style | Limited Edition Canvas, Limited Edition Framed Canvas |
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