File:'Invincible and Inflexible steaming out of Port Stanley in Chase'- the start of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 December 1914 RMG PW1879.jpg

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William Lionel Wyllie  (1851–1931)  wikidata:Q2579750
 
William Lionel Wyllie
Alternative names
W. L. Wyllie; William Lionel Wylie; W. L. Wylie; William Wyllie; W.J. Wylie
Description British painter, artist, landscape painter and marine painter
Date of birth/death 5 July 1851 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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creator QS:P170,Q2579750
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English: 'Invincible and Inflexible steaming out of Port Stanley in Chase': the start of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 December 1914
Signed by the artist, lower left, this watercolour was reproduced (in colour and with the title quoted here) in his and M.F. Wren's 'Sea Fights of the Great War' (1918) f. p. 98. It shows the early stages of the pursuit of Admiral von Spee's Pacific Squadron off the Falkland Islands, with Sturdee's battle-cruisers heading out from Port Stanley on 8 December 1914. His flagship, 'Invincible', is leading with the 'Inflexible' off her starboard quarter (viewer's left) and the armoured cruiser 'Kent' to port (viewer's right). One of the other cruisers is following in the distance but not identifiable. It is notable that in his 'Sea Fights' book - which only covered the first nine months of the war- Wyllie included no image of the Battle of Coronel, the comparatively catastrophic British loss that of the Falkland Islands victory avenged - so this image is the first of a major action included there.
Date 1915
date QS:P571,+1915-18-00T00:00:00Z/10
Dimensions Secondary support: 381 mm x 555 mm; Primary support: 285 mm x 460 mm
Notes Box Title: Wyllie: Kitson III c.d.e. 1st World War.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/126014
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Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC V1, P8, 65
Caird Catalogue Wyllie Collection Number: 60 30
Kitson/Wyllie Catalogue Number: III e 27
Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 37
Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 4283
Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 44
Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: No 1
Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: No 3
id number: PAF1879
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current17:14, 20 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 17:14, 20 November 20201,218 × 763 (423 KB)Hohum (talk | contribs)Colour adjust
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