An East India Company sailing ship, wrecked on 17 August 1803 on Wreckreef, Great Barrier Island
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Jorgensen, Jorgen, 1780-1841 :Loss of His Majestys Ship the Porpoise, and the East Indi...
Date: 1808 - 1803 - 1809
By: Jurgensen, Jorgen, 1780-1841
Reference: C-015-006
Description: A night scene with the two ships heeled over beyond the reef in the background, and men on low rocky reefs in the middle ground hauling objects from the ships. There are futher men in a lifeboat rowing towards the reef in the foreground Jorgensen is assumed to be the artist and Hooker the dedicatee. This is supported by the fact that Jorgensen was confined aboard the hulk Bahama at Chatham in 1909, and while there provided illustrations for a biographical manuscript that Hooker was preparingl. In addition, the handwriting below the image matches that below an image by Jorgensen reproduced to illustrate the article about him in Joan Kerr's 'Dictionary of Australian artists ... to 1870 (Melbourne, 1992, p. 415) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with William Jackson Hooker Esqr below the title and Joergen Joergensen [with umlauts over the os] lower right Wreckreef, or Flinders' Reef, is part of Australia's Barrier Reef. Date of loss of ships Aug 17, 1803 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pen and ink 495 x 594 mm