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The American Schooner bore down on the Pylades Sloop of war, mistaking her, but on receiving a shot made sail & escaped hoisting a white flag at her fore 'Catch me who can' G.H
Technique includes scratching out.; Medium includes sepia ink.; Heightened with white.
This anonymous watercolour, presumably of an incident in the Anglo-American ware of 1812-14 is inscribed at the bottom: 'The American Schooner bore down on the Pylades Sloop of war, mistaking her, but on receiving a shot made sail & escaped hoisting a white flag at her fore 'Catch me who can' G.H'
This anonymous watercolour, presumably of an incident in the Anglo-American ware of 1812-14 is inscribed at the bottom: 'The American Schooner bore down on the Pylades Sloop of war, mistaking her, but on receiving a shot made sail & escaped hoisting a white flag at her fore 'Catch me who can' G.H'
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD6391 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Pylades (1794) |
| Date made: | 1794; ca.1812 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 167 mm x 223 mm |