File:Captain William Gordon, 1705-69 RMG BHC2718.tiff
Original file (1,912 × 2,432 pixels, file size: 13.3 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Captions
Captions
Summary[edit]
Joseph Highmore: Captain William Gordon, 1705-69
  |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
_-_Captain_William_Gordon_(c.1709%E2%80%931768)_-_BHC2718_-_Royal_Museums_Greenwich.jpg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
Captain William Gordon, 1705-69  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
portrait |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Captain William Gordon, 1705-69 A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to the right in captain's full dress uniform (over three years), 1748-67 and a tie wig. His sword is visible on the right and he gestures towards the right. Here in the background on the right is a private two-decker bearing the royal coat of arms on the stern. On the left, the sitter has been positioned in front of an impression of rocks and a tree. The painting was signed by the artist, bottom right, and later inscribed, bottom left, to read 'Admiral Gordon'. It was made after Gordon took part with Lord George Graham in an action with French privateers off Ostend in 1745. He later served under Boscawen at Louisbourg in 1758 and with Saunders at the taking of Quebec in the following year. Gordon eventually rose to the rank of Admiral of the White. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1015 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
BHC2718 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1938-1356 id number: BHC2718 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing[edit]
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 03:36, 15 September 2017 |  | 1,912 × 2,432 (13.3 MB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1750), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14192 #670 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file: