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Capt.n Hugh Clapperton. R.N.
Capt.n Hugh Clapperton. R.N.
Painted by Gildon Manton. Engraved by Tho.s Lupton.
London, Published Dec.r 1, 1828, by John Murray, Albermarle Street,
Mezzotint on chine collé. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"), very large margins. Tear entering image repaired, creases, small scuff in title. Bit messy.
Half-length portrait of Bain Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827), in naval uniform. Born in Annan in Scotland, he went to sea at thirteen and was impressed into the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810 he was first in the breach at the storming of St Louis on Mauritius, and hauled down the French flag. In 1822 Clapperton joined Walter Oudney and Major Dixon Denham on an expedition to central Africa to trace the river Niger. Oudney died during the journey but Clapperton returned to England in 1825. Convinced that the way to the Niger was via West Africa, he went back that year as commander of a new expedition, but he died in 1827, suffering from malaria, depression, and dysentery. This portrait, after an oil now in the National Gallery of Scotland, was used as the frontispiece of Clapperton's 'Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822–1823 and 1824'.
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