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SAMUEL WALTERS
The Niger Expedition. Liverpool: S.Walters and Ackermann & Co. of London, March 12th 1841.
Hand-coloured aquatint (image: 305 x 470mm., sheet: 381 x 508mm), by E.Duncan after Walters. (Neatly mounted on paper). Window-mounted.
The engraving depicts the H.M.S. Soudan, Albert and Wilberforce under steam and sail off Holyhead, shortly before their departure from England in May 1841, under the overall command of Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Henry Dundas Trotter (1802-1859). In 1840 Trotter " was appointed captain of the Albert steamer, commander of an expedition to the coast of Africa, more especially for the examination of the Niger, and chief of the commission authorised to conclude treaties of commerce with the negro kings. The little squadron of three small steamers... entered the Niger on 13 Aug. [1841]. In less than three weeks the other two vessels were incapacitated by fever, and obliged to return... Trotter in the Albert struggled on as far as Egga, where, on 3 Oct., he was prostrated by the fever; and, as the great part of his ship's company was also down with it, he was obliged to turn back. He succeeded, however, in establishing a satisfactory treaty with some of the kings; and the admiralty were so far satisfied that everything possible had been done, that they promoted all the junior officers and... offered Trotter the governorship of New Zealand in 1843, the command of an Arctic expedition in 1844, and the command of the Indian navy in 1846." (DNB).
The Niger Expedition. Liverpool: S.Walters and Ackermann & Co. of London, March 12th 1841.
Hand-coloured aquatint (image: 305 x 470mm., sheet: 381 x 508mm), by E.Duncan after Walters. (Neatly mounted on paper). Window-mounted.
The engraving depicts the H.M.S. Soudan, Albert and Wilberforce under steam and sail off Holyhead, shortly before their departure from England in May 1841, under the overall command of Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Henry Dundas Trotter (1802-1859). In 1840 Trotter " was appointed captain of the Albert steamer, commander of an expedition to the coast of Africa, more especially for the examination of the Niger, and chief of the commission authorised to conclude treaties of commerce with the negro kings. The little squadron of three small steamers... entered the Niger on 13 Aug. [1841]. In less than three weeks the other two vessels were incapacitated by fever, and obliged to return... Trotter in the Albert struggled on as far as Egga, where, on 3 Oct., he was prostrated by the fever; and, as the great part of his ship's company was also down with it, he was obliged to turn back. He succeeded, however, in establishing a satisfactory treaty with some of the kings; and the admiralty were so far satisfied that everything possible had been done, that they promoted all the junior officers and... offered Trotter the governorship of New Zealand in 1843, the command of an Arctic expedition in 1844, and the command of the Indian navy in 1846." (DNB).