Fores's Marine Sketches. The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour. The Victory Saluting Her Majesty

Hand-coloured etching and aquatint inscribed 'The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty'. HMS Yacht Fairy is shown with the Queen aboard in the background, and the hulk of the Dryad in the centre right. The Dryad was broken up at Portsmouth by February 1860.

Object Details

ID: PAI5206
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fores; Robins, Thomas Sewell Harris, John
Vessels: Victory (1765); Dryad (1795)
Date made: 1 May 1851
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund.
Measurements: Sheet: 489 x 668 mm