Count Norman, 'Queen'
Watercolour portrait of Second Lieutenant (later Captain) Thomas Norman (1770–1805) of the Royal Marines, in profile to viewer’s left, depicted while serving in the ‘Queen’. He wears Marine uniform, consisting of a red coat with white facings. Inscribed beneath the image: ‘Count Norman, Queen’. The use of the title ‘Count’ was presumably a shipboard joke or nickname. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4936) depicts John ‘Jonas’ Wainwright, a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Norman and Wainwright 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. Norman was later killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, while serving in the ‘Mars’.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Norman and Wainwright 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. Norman was later killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, while serving in the ‘Mars’.