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HMS Donegal, 74-guns, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, heading down the Tagus past the Church of Santa-Engracia, the river crowded with small craft including a Portuguese royal barge, and the vessel astern of the flagship almost certainly the 74-gun HMS Edinburgh
Details
John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868)
HMS Donegal, 74-guns, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, heading down the Tagus past the Church of Santa-Engracia, the river crowded with small craft including a Portuguese royal barge, and the vessel astern of the flagship almost certainly the 74-gun HMS Edinburgh
signed and dated 'J. W. Carmichael/1837' (lower left), indistinctly signed and inscribed '*****/Carmichael/Lisbon 1837' (on an old label attached to the reverse) and numbered '903' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 x 53 ½ in. (83.9 x 135.9 cm.)
HMS Donegal, 74-guns, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney, heading down the Tagus past the Church of Santa-Engracia, the river crowded with small craft including a Portuguese royal barge, and the vessel astern of the flagship almost certainly the 74-gun HMS Edinburgh
signed and dated 'J. W. Carmichael/1837' (lower left), indistinctly signed and inscribed '*****/Carmichael/Lisbon 1837' (on an old label attached to the reverse) and numbered '903' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 x 53 ½ in. (83.9 x 135.9 cm.)
Provenance
A.K. Martin Esq.
Exhibited
Newcastle, Palace of the Arts, North East Coast Exhibition, May-October 1929, no. 219.
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