Captain John Shortland

Forfatter/Opretter:

Henry Richard Cook / Efter Robert Field

Kredit:

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/107321.html

Shortlink:

https://dkwiki.dk/b/e443

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Wikimedia Commons

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Captain John Shortland, 1769-1810. This print is based on a miniature of the sitter, now MNT0089, this copy being presented with it. It originally accompanied a memoir of Shortland published in the 'Naval Chronicle' for 1810, just after his death. The original was most probably painted at Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Field - who then worked there - probably in late 1807 or early 1808 since it shows only the right epaulette, indicating a captain of under three years' seniority. The engraver has here added the left epaulette, since Shortland was a senior captain by the time he died of wounds at Basseterre in the West Indies in January 1810. [PvdM 5/10]

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Public domain