Billy, a goat of the Cape of G. Hope
Pen-and-ink sketch, with grey wash, of a goat with long horns, inscribed beneath the image, ‘Billy / a Goat of the Cape of G[ood] Hope’.
The sketch is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by British naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844). The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. Most of the sketches appear to date from his time as a lieutenant in ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90, in ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93 and in ‘Queen’ in 1793–96. However, it is possible that this particular sketch was made during his subsequent service as a lieutenant in ‘Chichester’ from November 1796 to November 1797 or during his command of ‘Tremendous’, from November 1797 until March 1798. Both ships were stationed at the Cape of Good Hope. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4905.
The sketch is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by British naval officer Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844). The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. Most of the sketches appear to date from his time as a lieutenant in ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90, in ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93 and in ‘Queen’ in 1793–96. However, it is possible that this particular sketch was made during his subsequent service as a lieutenant in ‘Chichester’ from November 1796 to November 1797 or during his command of ‘Tremendous’, from November 1797 until March 1798. Both ships were stationed at the Cape of Good Hope. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4905.