Description

Plate 2 of 'Fores's Marine Sketches.' Hand-colored etching and aquatint of the HMS 'Victory' saluting Queen Victoria aboard the HMS Yacht 'Fairy' as it passes in the background. The 'Victory' is dressed with nautical signal flags that stretch down and across the mastheads to the head and stern of the ship. Sailors "man the yards" and take off their hats in a salute. Clouds of smoke are emitted from the gun port of the port side. In the foreground, the hull of the former HMS 'Dryad' floats in the harbor stripped of her sails as a receiving ship. Laundry lines hang from posts that were once masts on deck. The city is depicted in the right background.

Type

stamp

Location

recto, bottom left

Text

Clark Collection MIT

Type

graphite

Location

recto, bottom right

Text

8-50

Type

graphite

Location

verso, bottom left

Text

R-38