HMS Victory First and Last Journey Pair of Etchings Harold Wyllie 1922 London

Description: This is a pair of 1922 hand-coloured aquatint etchings by Harold Wyllie. They are based on a painting by his father, William Lionel Wyllie. They are entitled, “The First Journey of VICTORY, 1778”, and “The Last Journey of VICTORY, 1922”. They were published in London by Robert Dunthorne & Son on December 2, 1922. The image size of each is approx 13 in x 15 in. They are in near mint condition, having been previously kept under glass, matted, and framed. Now unframed. Marine painter, sculptor and engraver, Harold was born in London and the son of the marine artist William Lionel Wyllie. He married the portrait painter Euphans Hilary Strain. Harold Wyllie was intended for the Navy, but failed his examinations and turned to art. In 1898 he went to New York as a special artist for The Graphic, then served in South Africa during the Boer War. For part of World War I he was a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, then gained a commission in the Army, which he left in 1920 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Wyllie was then a student with Frank Short, having prior to the war studied with his father, Thomas Graham Jackson and Edwin Austin Abbey, the American painter. Acknowledged as an expert on shipping matters, Wyllie was in 1932 called on to supervise restoration of the Implacable. HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship.

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Location: Cypress, California

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