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gurdymonkey ([personal profile] gurdymonkey) wrote2011-04-27 06:45 pm

For crimsongriffin: Nelson's First Farewell

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.

[identity profile] gurdymonkey.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I knew you'd like this. First time I noticed it on the wall, I remember thinking, "It's Blakeney!"