Action between the Amazone and HMS Santa Margarita - cutting the prize adrift, 30 July 1782

Oil painting (framed) entitled 'Action between the Amazone and HMS Santa Margarita - cutting the prize adrift, 30 July 1782'. This painting is the second of a pair: for details see the other, which is BHC0449. Both were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784 and also engraved by Dodd, the print of this one being PAH7827. Both the paintings and the respective copies of the prints were presented to the Museum by the same donor in 1947.

Object Details

ID: BHC0450
Collection: Fine art
Type: Painting
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Dodd, Robert
Events: American War of Independence, 1775-1783
Vessels: Amazone (1778); Santa Margarita (captured 1779)
Date made: circa 1783; After 1782
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by Eric Miller through The Art Fund
Measurements: Frame: 913 mm x 1342 mm x 88 mm;Overall: 24.4 kg;Painting: 775 mm x 1220 mm