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Portsmouth Harbour with a distant view of Porchester Castle
No. 43 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)
Inscribed in the upper centre 'Porchester Castle', and in the upper right three illegible words. Inscribed in the sky 'the old Bull Dog Frigate.'
In the foreground a man is shrimping and beyond him on the right there is a beached hulk of a small ship. In the left distance there are two more hulks afloat and beyond them the keep of Porchester Castle. Portsdown Hill rises behind. The Bulldog is probably the hulk in the centre of the drawing. Although referred to as a frigate in Schetky’s inscription, HMS 'Bulldog' was a sloop of 16 guns, launched at Dover on 10 November 1782, subsequently made a bomb (1798), a powder hulk (1801), and broken up at Portsmouth by December 1829.
Inscribed in the upper centre 'Porchester Castle', and in the upper right three illegible words. Inscribed in the sky 'the old Bull Dog Frigate.'
In the foreground a man is shrimping and beyond him on the right there is a beached hulk of a small ship. In the left distance there are two more hulks afloat and beyond them the keep of Porchester Castle. Portsdown Hill rises behind. The Bulldog is probably the hulk in the centre of the drawing. Although referred to as a frigate in Schetky’s inscription, HMS 'Bulldog' was a sloop of 16 guns, launched at Dover on 10 November 1782, subsequently made a bomb (1798), a powder hulk (1801), and broken up at Portsmouth by December 1829.
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