For crimsongriffin: Nelson's First Farewell

[gurdymonkey]

As luck would have it, my boss took us out to lunch in honor of the made-up Administrative Professionals' Day "holiday," at the local seafood restaurant, Horatio's. I took the opportunity to get a better look at a print that hangs in one corner and identified it as a turn of the century print of "Nelson's First Farewell" published by Cassel & Co. and taken from a painting by one George Joy.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, of course has a copy in its holdings.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/nelson/viewRepro.cfm?reproID=PZ8284#content


The original George Joy painting dates to 1883.

Comments

[crimsongriffin.livejournal.com]

AWWW look at him! All golden and curly and two-handed and eyed! It is a lovely piece. What a cutey.

That...yes now I re-read the date, is prime Victorian sentimental mawkishness. Why is there no puppy? I wonder, with eleven kids, and him the sixth, it must have helped the family to place him on a ship.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd like this. First time I noticed it on the wall, I remember thinking, "It's Blakeney!"