Big Tip Revd I'ans, 'Queen'

Watercolour portrait of Reverend John I’Ans in profile to viewer’s left, depicted while serving as the chaplain of the ‘Queen’. He wears a black coat and white neckcloth. Inscribed beneath the image are the words: ‘Big Tip, Revd Ians, Queen’. ‘Big Tip’ may represent a shipboard nickname or joke. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4931) depicts Alexander ‘Sandy’ Browne, the surgeon of the ‘Queen’.

The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside I’Ans (sometimes written Ians) and Browne as a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’. It is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by Hollis while serving in ‘Queen’ and in other ships, including ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90 and ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93. The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat.

Object Details

ID: PAH4930
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hollis, Aiskew Paffard
Vessels: Queen (1769)
Date made: 1793–96
People: I'Ans, I'Ans
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 121 mm x 97 mm
Parts: Album of drawings (Album)