File:The Battle of Dogger Bank, 5 August 1781 RMG BHC0434.tiff
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[edit]Thomas Luny: The Battle of Dogger Bank, 5 August 1781
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The Battle of Dogger Bank, 5 August 1781  |
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painting |
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marine art |
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| Description |
English: The Battle of Dogger Bank, 5 August 1781 The British artist Thomas Luny (1758-1837) is best known for his marine paintings, which, though often sombre, show great skill in technique and execution. The action referred to in this painting is a confrontation between a British convoy homeward bound from the Baltic and a Dutch convoy. The British commander Hyde Parker ordered the British merchantmen to continue their voyage home, whilst he ran down on the Dutch with his battle-ships. In the centre of the picture is the Dutch flagship, the ‘Admiral de Ruijter’, surrounded by British and Dutch ships. The artist has focused the spectator’s attention to the middle ground using the reflection of light on the surface of the water, keeping the foreground and the sides of the composition in the shade created by clouds in the sky. He thereby gives the image a sense of spatial depth. |
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1781 |
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | frame dimensions: 658 mm x 1006 mm x 95 mm; Painting: 546 mm x 863 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC0434 (Royal Museums Greenwich) |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11926 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: OP1974-1 id number: BHC0434 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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