HMS 'Victory' Towed into Gibraltar

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Oil painting of the HMS Victory, in full starboard view, being towed into Gibraltar by the HMS Neptune, seen ahead and in starboard stern view. The sea is choppy and the sky is full of grey clouds. There are men in rowboats in the foreground and are other ships heading for shore in the background, where the Rock of Gibraltar can be seen.

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Categories	Paintings Boats and Ships Military
Object type	Oil painting
Title	HMS 'Victory' Towed into Gibraltar
Materials and techniques	Oil on millboard Oil Paint Millboard Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting, 'HMS "Victory" Towed into Gibraltar', Clarkson Stanfield, ca. 1852
Physical description	Oil painting of the HMS Victory, in full starboard view, being towed into Gibraltar by the HMS Neptune, seen ahead and in starboard stern view. The sea is choppy and the sky is full of grey clouds. There are men in rowboats in the foreground and are other ships heading for shore in the background, where the Rock of Gibraltar can be seen.
Dimensions	Estimate height: 28.9cm Estimate width: 44.5cm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles	British School Victorian
Credit line	Bequeathed by Miss E. Anderson
Object history	Bequeathed by Miss E. Anderson, 1893
Place depicted	Gibraltar
Bibliographic reference	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 275-76
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	681-1893

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Record created	April 10, 2007
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O133691/hms-victory-towed-into-gibraltar-oil-painting-stanfield-clarkson/

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