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Stern views of the Mary of St Ives and the Liberty of Teignmouth dried out at Swansea.
P61CAL
Object connections:
| Collection | Fox Talbot Collection, Historic Photographs |
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| Gallery location | Not on display |
Object details:
| Object ID | P61CAL |
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| Description | A whole plate size salted paper print. A port stern view of the sailing ship Mary of St Ives secured to a mooring buoy and dried out at low tide at Swansea. Ahead of the Mary, off the port bow is the Schooner-rigged(?) Liberty of Teignmouth with a ship's boat tied alongside the port broadside. An unidentified sailing ship is in the far distance off the Liberty's bow. Reverse has been annotated in pencil by Admiral Ballard in 1934: 'Swansea in 1835' P11CAL is the original negative for this original print. |
| Date made | 1846-1850 |
| Artist/Maker | Jones, Calvert Richard |
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| Place made | Swansea |
| Credit | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Fox Talbot Collection |
| Materials | paper |
| Measurements | Overall: 185 mm x 224 mm |
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