Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1809]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, nearly half-length, standing slightly to left against background of cloudy sky, looking to left; wearing wig, naval uniform, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816,, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
The collection consists of 35 letters from Count Heiden to Admiral Codrington, most docketed or annotated by Codrington. Subjects includes the battle of Navarino and its aftermath; Codrington's summary recall from Malta by the British government and h...
Description:
Count Louis Heiden, Russian admiral who commanded the Russian ships of the allied fleet under Admiral Codrington at the battle of Navarino in 1827.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Greece
Subject (Name):
Kapodistrias, Iōannēs Antōniou, 1776-1831., Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851., Heiden, Louis, Count., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Subject (Topic):
Navarino, Battle of, Pylos, Greece, 1827, Philhellenism, Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Foreign relations, History, Naval, History, and Naval operations
The collection consists of 45 letters to Dudley Ward and 33 to Frances (Darwin) Cornford, who was also a poet. The letters discuss in detail Brooke's complicated romantic relationships with "Ka" Cox, Noel Olivier, Cathleen Nesbitt, and the Tahitian wo...
Description:
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge, was a member of the Georgian Poets. His most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems, appeared in 1915. Brooke joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915., Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915, Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960., Cox, Katherine Laird., Nesbitt, Cathleen, 1888-1982., Olivier, Noel, 1892-, Taata-Mata., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Relations with women, Poets, English, Poets, Georgian, World War, 1914-1918, History, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper of a fair copy of the ship's journal kept by the first mate of the pink Batchelor from 2 November 1669, off the Cape Verde Islands, to 4 April 1670, off the coast of Patagonia. The daily entries contain details of the Batchelor's v...
Description:
This copy, which is annotated by the Earl of Sandwich, may have been made for the Royal Navy's investigation of the incident in early 1671, when the Sweepstakes was still supposed lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and South Atlantic Ocean
Subject (Name):
Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688., Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672., Batchelor (Warship), Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Seafaring life, Ships, History, Naval, and Discovery and exploration
