A view looking south from the cliffs at Dover, with the 10-gun naval brig-sloop 'Rolla' in starboard broadside view on the left firing a salute and a cross-Channel steam packet belching smoke on the right as it heads for the French coast seen in the distance, with other shipping. This is one of eight loose items in Edward Gennys Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855). It is inscribed 'HMS Rolla. Dover. Aug 26. 51' though the last number may alternatively be '7'. It cannot be by Fanshawe, however, since the inscription is not in his writing and, even allowing the uncertain date, he was not in England in either 1851 or 1857. The dates also suggest it cannot be by any of his children (the eldest of whom would only have been 13 in 1857) but it is possibly by another member of the family. One possibility is is sister Frances (from 1853, Mrs John Dalling) who was also artistic. The 'Rolla' was a 'Cherokee'-class brig-sloop, built at Plymouth in 1829 and broken up in 1868. [PvdM 2/11]