Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0038
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Note on attribution: the frontispiece drawing includes an erased signature at bottom right: “H.S. Melville.” It matches the known signature of Harden S. Melville and indicates that Porcher and Melville may have collaborated on this, or possibly many, of Porcher's watercolors. Harden S. Melville was trained by his father, the London engraver, lithographer and watercolor painter Henry Melville (1826-41). Unlike Porcher, Melville was a trained artist, having earned a medal from the Society of Artists and exhibiting three paintings at the Royal Academy exhibitions between 1837 and 1841. In 1841, he accepted the position as draughtsman on board HMS Fly, where he would have likely met Porcher, who was Mate on the voyage. Melville supplied nineteen drawings and two maps for Joseph Beete Jukes's Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly [...] (2 vols, London, 1847) and published twenty-five lithographs entitled Sketches in Australia and the Adjacent Islands (London, 1849) (YCBA Rare Books holds a copy).
Subject Terms:
Davis, N. (Nathan), 1812–1882. | Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837–1882. | Porcher, Edwin A., 1824–1878. | Porcher, Madelina -- Correspondence. | Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Officers. | Great Britain. Royal Navy. | Boxer (Ship : 1855–1865) | Cleopatra (Ship : 1843) | Harpy (Ship : 1845–1909) | Hibernia (Ship : 1804–1902) | Kertch (Ship) | Anglo-Burmese War, 2nd, 1852. | Antiquities. | Excavations (Archaeology) | Fortification. | Harbors -- China -- Pictorial works. | Junks -- Pictorial works. | Navigation. | Pagodas -- Burma -- Pictorial works. | Piracy -- China. | Pirates -- China. | Punic antiquities. | Ships -- Pictorial works. | Temples -- China -- Pictorial works. | Voyages and travels -- 1850–1900. | Carthage (Extinct city) -- Pictorial works. | China Sea -- Description and travel. | Cyrene (Extinct city) -- Pictorial works. | East Asia -- Description and travel. | Gozo Island (Malta) -- Pictorial works. | Grand Harbour (Malta) -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia. | Guangzhou (China) -- Description and travel. | Hong Kong (China) -- Pictorial works. | Hong Kong (China) -- Description and travel. | Malta -- Pictorial works. | Malta -- Antiquities. | Malta -- Description and travel. | Malta -- History, Naval. | Mellieh̳a (Malta) -- Pictorial works. | Pulau Pinang (Malaysia : State) -- Pictorial works. | Qrendi (Malta) -- Pictorial works. | Singapore -- Pictorial works. | Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) -- Pictorial works. | Tunis (Tunisia) -- Pictorial works. | Tunisia -- Antiquities, Roman -- Pictorial works. | Utica (Extinct city) -- Pictorial works. | Valletta (Malta) -- Pictorial works.