• Title
  View of the Lady Nelson in the Thames ... , ca. 1805
• Call number
  ML 86
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 164
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1805
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  430324
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 45.7 x 64.4 - includes frame
  
• Collection history
  Presented by Captain G.N. Hector in 1889 to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This painting is based on a print of the ship, "View of the Lady Nelson in the Thames ..." engraved by S.I. Neele reproduced on p.1 in: "The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales" by James Grant. London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell Yard, Fleet Street, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1803. (Dixson Reading Room Q80/17 & Q80/18)
  The print and this painting differ in small details.
  A wood engraving of this painting was published in "The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser", 29 December 1888, p.1345. The painting was then described as being in the possession of Captain Hector, of the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Britannia.
  Colour photograph lithograph postcard produced by the SLNSW is available at PXB 188 (No.20).
  Digital order no:a128461
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from print in James Grant's "The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery...", 1803.
  Plaque, now removed but formerly affixed to bottom centre of frame, "The 'Lady Nelson' - Brig, 6 Guns, / Commander Lieu. Grant, R.N. [i.e. Royal Navy] / Sailed from England March 18th and entered Port Jackson Decr. 16th 1800. / In this vessel Lieu. Murray R.N. discovered and entered / Port Phillip, February 1802"
• Date note
  
  No date
• Name
  Lady Nelson (Ship)
  
• Topic
  brigs
  paintings
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (20 September - 12 December, 2010)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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