Lot 325
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Samuel Owen (1769-1857)
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Samuel Owen (1769-1857)

H.M.S. Director, raking the Dutch flagship Vrijheid, during the Battle of Camperdown, 11th October 1797

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Samuel Owen (1769-1857)
H.M.S. Director, raking the Dutch flagship Vrijheid, during the Battle of Camperdown, 11th October 1797
signed and inscribed 'This Plate of His Majestys Ship Director, raking the Vreyhire is humbly inscribed/to Capn. Wm. B ligh. Officers by their most obedient very humble Servant Sam Owen./Drawn Etched & Published by. S. Owen. No. 144 - Strand, London, as the act direct April 1792.' (centre)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, on light etched outline
14 x 19¾in. (35.6 x 50cm.)
Provenance
Sir Bruce Ingram
Exhibited
Royal Academy, 1799, no. 853.
Colnaghi, London, 1937.
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Lot Essay

H.M.S. Director, 64-guns, was built at Gravesend in 1784 and served as a lazaretto (quarantine ship) at Chatham from 1794-97. Returning to sea that autumn, her commander at Camperdown was the notorious Captain William Bligh who had come to public attention following the famous mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty in 1789.

There are three similar watercolours in the National Collection recording other stages of the Director's attack on the Vrijheid at the Battle of Camperdown.

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