Image: 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay' (Turner's 'Trafalgar' explained by a Greenwich Pensioner) RMG PZ8288

Description: 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay' [Turner's 'Trafalgar' explained by a Greenwich Pensioner] Print. Depicts: clothing, outerwear: dress, boy sailor's and uniform, Greenwich Pensioner's. This shows a one-legged Greenwich Pensioner explaining Turner's 'Battle of Trafalgar' of 1822-24 in the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall to a boy in a classic late-Victorian sailor suit. It is highly derivative and printed well after Greenwich Hospital finally closed in 1869, though the Naval Gallery remained open (as part of the Royal Naval College from 1873) until the pictures were transferred to the NMM in 1936. The idea is possibly based on Edward Taylor's painting of 1883, 'T'was a famous victory' (now in Birmingham City Art Gallery), which shows a Pensioner giving a similar lecture, in the National Gallery, to two young Victorian sailors from the 'Victory' in front of Turner's 1806 version of Trafalgar (now in the Tate collection). In the present print Turner's painting and its frame are shown far from accurately and rather smaller than they are. The Pensioner also wears two medals, one probably the 1848 General Service medal, the other unidentifiable with a red ribbon.The title 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay' is the first phrase of John Braham's famous song, 'The Death of Nelson', c.1806. PvdM 9/04 Twas in Trafalgar's Bay [Turner's 'Trafalgar' explained by a Greenwich Pensioner]
Title: 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay' (Turner's 'Trafalgar' explained by a Greenwich Pensioner) RMG PZ8288
Credit: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/158885
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