Mortar Boats engaging the quarantine battery at Sebastopol, 15 August 1855
Inscribed: “Captain Julius Roberts' Mortar Boats engaging the quarantine battery – Sebastopol August 15th 1855”. ‘Flamer’ is shown centrally starboard-bow on in the centre foreground, with two similar vessels astern of her; their target is to the right. Gunsmoke is issuing from two of the boats, as well as the quarantine battery; between them a projectile has fallen short of ‘Flamer’ into the sea.
PAG9181 is a hand-coloured duplicate.
From Colnaghi's Authentic Series.
PAG9181 is a hand-coloured duplicate.
From Colnaghi's Authentic Series.
Object Details
| ID: | PAI6489 |
|---|---|
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Brierly, Oswald Walters; Goupil & Co Weigel, Otto P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Vessels: | Flamer (1855) |
| Date made: | 29 Mar 1856 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 382 x 572 mm |