A Curate of Scilly
Watercolour sketch of a clergyman in a black coat, facing to the viewer’s right. Inscribed beneath image ‘A Curate of Scilly’. The date ‘1791’ is inscribed at the bottom of the page.
A speech bubble from the curate’s mouth is inscribed: ‘I never touch it Brother without a drop of Brandy in it, it already gives me the Cholic’. This refers to another drawing mounted on the same page (PAH4908), in which another curate tastes a drink of milk and water.
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, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4909.
A speech bubble from the curate’s mouth is inscribed: ‘I never touch it Brother without a drop of Brandy in it, it already gives me the Cholic’. This refers to another drawing mounted on the same page (PAH4908), in which another curate tastes a drink of milk and water.
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, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat. This sketch is mounted on the same page as PAH4909.