As a well known artist of the day Antoine Roux (1765-1835) was frequently invited on board ships to sketch, not only them, but the ports at which they called.
It is recorded that he was invited aboard H.M.S. Trusty, probably by her Captain, for the voyage from Marseille to England. The following six watercolours record the journey he made in 1787.
H.M.S. Trusty, a fourth-rate mounting 50 guns, was built by Hillhouse at Bristol and launched there on 9th October 1782. Given a builder's measurement of 1,088 tons, she was 153¾ feet in length, with a 124¾ foot keel and a 41 foot beam. During a career spanning over thirty years, she was a flagship in the West Indies in 1793 and served as a guardship at Weymouth in September 1794, probably when the king (George III) was in residence there. Put to work as a troopship in 1799, she was present at the operations off Egypt in 1801 and was later attached to the squadron off Gravelines which drove ashore four vessels of the French force assembled at Ostend awaiting orders to invade England on 17 July 1805. In May 1809 she became a prison ship and, from 1812-1814, served as both prison and hospital ship until being comdemned and broken up in April 1815.
Antoine Roux (1765-1835)
细节
Antoine Roux (1765-1835)
A French frigate in reserve, thought to be off Toulons (recto);
and A ship of the line, on the reverse (verso)
with inscription 'Dessine en l'annee 1787/a bord du Vaisseau "The Trusty" de 60 canons/Anglais de nation'
pencil and watercolour
7¾ x 10¾in. (19.5 x 27.5cm.)
A French frigate in reserve, thought to be off Toulons (recto);
and A ship of the line, on the reverse (verso)
with inscription 'Dessine en l'annee 1787/a bord du Vaisseau "The Trusty" de 60 canons/Anglais de nation'
pencil and watercolour
7¾ x 10¾in. (19.5 x 27.5cm.)
来源
Keller Collection, No.211/144