Live Auction 5696The Collection of the Late John Appleby: A Channel Island Treasure House
William Norris (c.1778)
Lot 279

William Norris (c.1778)

H.M.S. Britannia and a frigate running down the Channel (illustrated); and A British man-o'war and other vessels in the Channel off Dover

Closed4 November 2010

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GBP 562

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William Norris (c.1778)
H.M.S. Britannia and a frigate running down the Channel (illustrated); and A British man-o'war and other vessels in the Channel off Dover
both signed 'Wm Norris Delinavit' (lower left); the first dated 'Jan.ry 1779' (lower right); the second dated 'June: 1778' (lower right)
pen and black ink and grey wash, on paper, unframed
11½ x 17 in. (29.2 x 43.2 cm.)
a pair (2)

Specialist note

H.M.S. Britannia was a 100-gun First Rate launched at Portsmouth in October 1762. After extensive service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, she was renamed Princess Royal in 1812 and, after two further changes of name (St. George, 1812 and Barfleur, 1819), she was finally broken up in 1825.