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Jemmy Oughton, 1st of the 'Queen'
Watercolour portrait of Lieutenant (later Rear-Admiral) James ‘Jemmy’ Oughton (1760–1832) in profile to viewer’s left, depicted while serving in the ‘Queen’. He wears lieutenant’s full-dress uniform (1787–95 pattern).
His name and rank are inscribed above the image: ‘Jemmy Oughton, 1st [Lieutenant] of the Queen’. Below the image is the word ‘Gallimaufry’, meaning a stew of various meats or, figuratively, a jumble or hodgepodge of things. A speech bubble from Oughton’s mouth reads: ‘Pudding, fal, lal, is a delicate Bit’. Referring to stew and pudding, these inscriptions perhaps suggest that Oughton’s appetite was a source of shipboard jokes. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4933) depicts a fellow lieutenant of the ‘Queen’, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Innes.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Oughton and Innes 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.
His name and rank are inscribed above the image: ‘Jemmy Oughton, 1st [Lieutenant] of the Queen’. Below the image is the word ‘Gallimaufry’, meaning a stew of various meats or, figuratively, a jumble or hodgepodge of things. A speech bubble from Oughton’s mouth reads: ‘Pudding, fal, lal, is a delicate Bit’. Referring to stew and pudding, these inscriptions perhaps suggest that Oughton’s appetite was a source of shipboard jokes. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4933) depicts a fellow lieutenant of the ‘Queen’, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Innes.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Oughton and Innes 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.
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