[Z] A SILVER GELATINE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE R.Y. BRITANNIA BY WEST & SON, SOUTHSEA, CIRCA 1895; and five others

A SILVER GELATINE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE R.Y. BRITANNIA BY WEST & SON, SOUTHSEA, CIRCA 1895

depicting in full sail heeling on a starboard reach and flying the Prince of Wales' colours, with studio blind stamp lower right -- 13¾ x 10½in. (35 x 26.5cm.); together with two further examples by West & Son of Big Class yachts racing, circa 1894-5; another of Britannia by Adamson, Rothesay, blindstamped; another, unsigned, depicting the Great Yachting Disaster of August 1896 and featuring Meteor, Britannia, Isode and Saint immediately after multiple collisions and one death; and another unframed, probably of Britannia at anchor

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Provenance: Britannia Inn, Isle of Wight.

Condition Report

Sold as seen.

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