HMS Roebuck off Jeddah.

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HMS Roebuck off Jeddah.

A BRITISH STEAMER MOORED OFF JEDDAH

Watercolour and opaque pigment (probably gouache) on paper, measuring 309 by 217mm. Trimmed close to the image, paper slightly browned, bottom left corner a little worn with amateur paper repair to verso. Artist’s signature in pencil to bottom left and later caption to verso. [Red Sea, off the coast of Jeddah], 1859.

£2,500.00

A handsome watercolour of a British steamship moored off the coast of Jeddah. The British, along with other colonial powers, maintained consulates in the port city and various British ships (both navy and merchant) stopped off there when sailing the Red Sea. The romantic calm of this image does nothing to capture the tensions of the time, with the painting being made a year after the 1858 massacre (that targeted the Christian population) and growing anger toward Western inhabitants.

HMS Roebuck was commanded by Acting Commander Edwin Charles Symons (East Indies and China, May 1858-January 1959), and Commander Francis Marten, (East Indies and China, January 1859-May 1861).

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243891

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HMS Roebuck off Jeddah.

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