H.M.S. Heroine
Pen-and-ink sketch of the frigate ‘Heroine’ (launched 1782) with sailors in the top-gallant yards, as seen from the wardroom on the ‘Queen’. Inscribed above ‘In Top Gallant Sail’ and below ‘H.M.S. Heroine’ with the date 1793. A further inscription adds the drawing was made ‘from the Wardroom windows of the Queen passing within Hail’.
The sketch is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by British naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844) during the late 1780s and the 1790s. The majority relate to his service as a lieutenant in ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90, in ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93 and in ‘Queen’ in 1793–96. Included are portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4891.
The sketch is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by British naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844) during the late 1780s and the 1790s. The majority relate to his service as a lieutenant in ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90, in ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93 and in ‘Queen’ in 1793–96. Included are portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4891.