File:'A View of Fort Apolonia (Appollonia) and the canoe landing the officer thro' the Surf, March 75' (Bray album) RMG PT2020.tiff

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Gabriel Bray
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English: 'A View of Fort Apolonia [Appollonia] & the canoe landing the officer thro' the Surf, March 75' [Bray album]

No. 45 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)

A drawing of Fort Apolonia, with the title and date below on the old backing sheet, which also bears a damaged signature, lower right, that was probably originally 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). It shows a scene in West Africa, on Bray's first 'Pallas' voyage. Having first called at the River Senegal and River Gambia, the 'Pallas' was instructed to to call at Cape Appolonia (spelt this way in the ship's log) where the Africa Company were constructing this fort, 'consequent to an Act of Parliament', before continuing to Cape Coast Castle. The 'Pallas' in fact only only sent a boat with an officer ashore here as they passed on 17 March 1775, while the ship stayed in the offing. The British fort - which was undoubtedly protecting traffic including, if not mainly, the slave trade - is in the centre, flanked on either side by stockades enclosing African huts under the shade of palm trees. The view is from the ship, showing the boat - a local canoe - carrying the officer ashore with a waving figure on the bow and others waving from the shore.

This is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album that was purchased for the Museum by the Macpherson Fund of the Society for Nautical Research in April 1991. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.

A View of Fort Apolonia & the canoe landing the officer thro' the Surf
Date circa 17 March 1775
Dimensions Sheet: 147 mm x 281 mm; Image: 148 mm x 203 mm; Mount: 316 mm x 480 mm
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/200888
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