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'Fores's Marine Sketches. The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty' [in HM Yacht 'Fairy', with the 'Dryad'
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint inscribed 'The Royal Navy. Portsmouth Harbour - the Victory Saluting Her Majesty'. HMS Yacht 'Fairy' is shown with Queen Victoria on board in the background, and the hulked 'Dryad' centre right. The 'Dryad' - a 36-gun frigate launched in 1794 - had a long and notable active career until September 1832, after which it became a receiving ship at Portsmouth, as shown here, until broken up in 1860-62.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH9197 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Fores; Robins, Thomas Sewell Harris, John |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Vessels: | Dryad (1795) |
| Date made: | 1 May 1851 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 605 mm x 836 mm;Primary support: 498 mm x 680 mm |
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