• Title
  French and English ships fighting at sea, 1803-1815 / possibly by Thomas Buttersworth
• Creator
  Thomas Buttersworth, 1768-1842
• Call number
  ML 579
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1803-1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  836770
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : SHIPS/Prince George
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading RoomDigitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 47 x 54.7 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  The cutter shown has the French Flag, while the flag on the frigate is too indefinite for identification.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Keyword subjects:
  
  Napoleonic Wars
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned. Dated and titled on label on back in former library officer's hand, 'The Prince George: an early incident in Australian history 1879'.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Mr. E. Archibald, National Maritime Museum attributed (1979) the painting to Buttersworth and identified the ships, as a French cutter and an English frigate during the Napoleonic Wars.
• Date note
  
  No date; work based on Napoleonic Wars and artist's death.
• Name
  Prince George (ship)
  
• Topic
  frigates
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20830802

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