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Description: | Half-length polychrome female bust figurehead of HMS 'Daphne', an 18-gun corvette built at Pembroke Dock in 1838 and sold for breaking to Castle's in 1864. On 'Daphne's' completion in 1838 she was commissioned for the Mediterranean under Captain John W. Dalling. Her second lieutenant, who quickly succeeded as first, was (later Admiral Sir) Edward Gennys Fanshawe, 1814-1906: in late 1848, after further posting elsewhere, he in turn became her captain on a commission in the Pacific until 1852. A great deal is therefore known of parts of her service from the privately published memoir of Fanshawe, edited from his journals and letters by his daughter in 1904, and because Fanshawe's album of drawings recording his Pacific cruise is also in the collection (PAI4604). [PvdM1/11]
Finish: oil paint (polychrome) and gilt.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Daphne 1838 (HMS) figureheads | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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