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A portrait of the ship 'Mount Stewart Elphinstone', shown in starboard-broadside view with the cliffs of the English coastline in the distance. Figures are shown on deck looking towards the coast. Built of teak in India in 1826, the 'Mount Stewart Elphinstone' had a trading life of more than fifty years. Over several voyages it carried nearly 1,700 convicts to Sydney and Hobart, as well as emigrants to Australia. The ship took between three and five months to make each voyage and in 1849 was described by Sir Lucius O'Brien of County Clare as a ‘deplorable prison-ship’. It was also the ship on which the astronomer John Herschel and his family sailed in 1833 to the Cape of Good Hope, where he carried out a major survey of the southern sky.
Title
The Ship ‘Mount Stewart Elphinstone’ Offshore
Date
1840
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 45.3 x W 61 cm
Accession number
BHC3504
Work type
Painting
Signature/marks description
W. Knell 1840
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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