A whole plate size salted paper print. A port quarter view of the Dutch ketch-rigged barge Aurora (fl.1846) dried out, possibly at Swansea. Lines from her stern go to mooring buoys out of the picture. The name of the barge is written on the port side of the stern close to the rudder. The sails are furled along the gaffs and booms of the two masts. The name I. D. Kramer is written on the coaming to the companion way, just forward of the mizzen mast.

Reverse has been annotated in pencil by Admiral Ballard in 1934: 'Dutchman in the Thames, 1835 (about)' and corrected in another hand 'c.1855'.

In a letter dated 23 November 1846 from Calvert Jones to WHF Talbot, he lists a series of large negatives, including: '162. "Aurora" Dutch Galliot', which may relate to this vessel. Jones had arrived back in England from his European trip in early June 1846 to sort out the afffairs of his dead uncle.

P28CAL is the original negative for this original print.