This print representing the East India Ship Vernon,Geo. Denny Commander, on her voyage out, fitted with a Steam Engine of 30 horse power, passing H.M. ships 'Edinburgh & Blenheim 74.s. beating down Channel on the 21st of September 1839 off Benbridge, Isle of Wight, is respectfully Inscribed to Richard Green, Esq.r of Blackwall, the owner and builder of the Vernon, John Lynn. Proof.
Painted and Published by J. Lynn, Marine Painter, 23, Polygon, Somers Town, London. Engraved by W.O. Geller. Printed by S.H. Hawkins.
[n.,d., c.1839.]
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 530 x 725mm (21 x 28½"). Trimmed to plate at sides, into image at top, losing c.50mm of sky), some cracking to edges, overall toning, new margin added at top, laid on archival paper.
Vernon, a 911 ton paddle steamer, off Bembridge. Built in 1839 for the Green Blackwall Line's London-Madras run, , her engines proved to be uneconomical and were removed. In 1867, after nearly thirty years carrying passengers to the colonies in the East, Vernon was sold to the Colony of New South Wales for a 'Public Industrial School', for problem children. Within a year 113 boys, some as young as three, were aboard, being given moral, nautical and industrial training, with some elementary schooling. In 1892 was sold for breaking to Mess.rs Rae and Surge for £180; taken to Balls Head Bay on the north of Sydney Bay, the ship was burned to the waterline the following year. Australian interest.
Lynn's painting is in the National Maritime Museum, BHC3686.
[Ref: 54035] £350.00
[n.,d., c.1839.]
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 530 x 725mm (21 x 28½"). Trimmed to plate at sides, into image at top, losing c.50mm of sky), some cracking to edges, overall toning, new margin added at top, laid on archival paper.
Vernon, a 911 ton paddle steamer, off Bembridge. Built in 1839 for the Green Blackwall Line's London-Madras run, , her engines proved to be uneconomical and were removed. In 1867, after nearly thirty years carrying passengers to the colonies in the East, Vernon was sold to the Colony of New South Wales for a 'Public Industrial School', for problem children. Within a year 113 boys, some as young as three, were aboard, being given moral, nautical and industrial training, with some elementary schooling. In 1892 was sold for breaking to Mess.rs Rae and Surge for £180; taken to Balls Head Bay on the north of Sydney Bay, the ship was burned to the waterline the following year. Australian interest.
Lynn's painting is in the National Maritime Museum, BHC3686.
[Ref: 54035] £350.00