File:Greenwich Hospital in the distance and the 'Augusta' royal yacht , 5 April 1795 RMG PU2198.tiff
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Bunney and Gold; Nicholas Pocock; William Ellis |
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English: Greenwich Hospital in the distance and the 'Augusta' royal yacht , 5 April 1795 The fuller text description of this illustration for the 'Naval Chronicle' is 'View of the River Thames, with Greenwich Hospital in [the] distance and the 'Augusta' Yacht as she appeared on the Fifth of April 1795, with Her Serene Highness the Princess Caroline of Brunswick on board....'. It shows the 'Princess Augusta' (her formal name from 1773) surrounded by other shipping and small boats in the Thames, as she heads up Blackwall reach towards Greenwich Hospital, which is shown from the north-east. The yacht is seen in stern and port-quarter view, flies the Royal Standard at the main and the broad pendant of Commodore John Willett Payne at the fore, and fires a salute from one or more guns in her starboard broadside. There is a cutter flying the Union flag and taking in sail on the far left, a barge flying a red or blue ensign, centre left, with a further full-rigged vessel in the far distance above; another barge flies a red or blue ensign, centre right, and there is a Naval cutter flying a red or blue ensign and a private pendant on the right. All the shipping is heading upstream on a fresh breeze to land Princess Caroline at Greenwich Hospital prior to her disastrous marriage to George, Prince of Wales (later George IV). She had been fetched by a squadron under Payne from Brunswick. Met by massed ranks of Greenwich Pensioners it was on this occasion that she was overheard to remark (in French), 'Are all Englishmen missing an arm or a leg?' This is one of many illustrations by Pocock for the 'Naval Chronicle', published between 1799 and 1816 and faces p. 113 in vol 3, Jan-July 1800, with a full account of the 'expedition' pp. 113-118. |
| Date | 1 March 1800 |
| Notes | Box Title: Greenwich 1800-1828. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/106349 |
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| Identifier | entry number: PR1959-42 id number: PAD2198 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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