“Since Carla left me, I’ve had to draw for myself every night” by Chris Brans
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Henry Wessel
‘Incidents 001’ (2012)
‘Incidents 002’ & ‘Incidents 003’ (2012)
‘Incidents 005’ (2012)
All works from the ‘Incidents’ series, by Henry Wessel.
Lt. Francis Meynell
Pencil and watercolor by Lt. Francis Meynell, “Slave deck of the Albaroz, Prize to the Albatross, 1845”, shows Africans liberated by the British Navy. The Albanez (erroneously identified as Albaroz) was a Brazilian vessel, captured by the Royal Navy ship, Albatross, off the mouth of the Coanza/Cuanza River (in present-day Angola) in 1845. Meynell was mate on the Albatross, captained at the time by Reginald Yorke. According to the NMM records, the Albatross was commissioned in 1842 and cruised African waters until 1849.
