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Summary
Thomas Buttersworth: HMS Shannon taking USS Chesapeake, 1 June 1813
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| Title |
HMS Shannon taking USS Chesapeake, 1 June 1813  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
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| Description |
English: HMS Shannon taking USS Chesapeake, 1 June 1813 'HMS Shannon taking USS Chesapeake, 1 June 1813'. The American frigate Chesapeake was captured by the British ship Shannon off the Boston coast, in a battle which lasted only 15 minutes but claimed over 120 lives. |
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| Date | after 1813 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 640 mm x 803 mm x 70 mm;Painting: 470 mm x 610 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC0601 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12093 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: BHC0601 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 03:21, 4 October 2017 |  | 4,200 × 3,152 (37.88 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1813), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12093 #2278 |
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