27th Oct, 2010 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Audacious)
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[M] FRANÇOIS GEFFROI ROUX (1811-1882)<br/>Souvenir of...
FRANÇOIS GEFFROI ROUX (1811-1882)
Souvenir of my stay in May and June 1860 on board the [ship] Algesiras, Captain Vrignaud, [C.A. E. Paris], 3rd Division Mediterranian Squadran, under the orders of Vice Admiral Le Barbier de Tinan, casting off from the harbour of Hyères, the 8th May 1868.
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Frois Roux Marseille 1868' (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with scratching out
16¼ x 22½in. (41 x 57cm.)
Exhibited: Antoine Roux et Fils, at Musee Cantini, Marseilles, Feb 1955, No.10.
Provenance: Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles.
The steam auxiliary two-decker Algesiras was the nameship of a class of nine vessels designed by Dupuy de Lome and laid down in several French dockyards between 1848 and 1854. Built at Toulon, she was laid down in March 1853, launched on 4th October 1855, and first commissioned in September 1856. Measured at 5,160 tons displacement and 233 feet in length with a 53 foot beam, she mounted 90 guns of varying calibre and was fitted with a 900nhp. engine fired from eight boilers. Her engine was, in fact, so efficient that it was claimed she could steam at 14 knots and this so alarmed the Admiralty that it quickly led to improvements in engine design for comparable ships then under construction for the Royal Navy. Based at Toulon for her entire sea-going career, Algesiras was decommissioned in 1865 and put to work as a fleet transport. Later used as a school ship, she was accidentally destroyed by fire in Toulon harbour on 25th November 1906.
Souvenir of my stay in May and June 1860 on board the [ship] Algesiras, Captain Vrignaud, [C.A. E. Paris], 3rd Division Mediterranian Squadran, under the orders of Vice Admiral Le Barbier de Tinan, casting off from the harbour of Hyères, the 8th May 1868.
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Frois Roux Marseille 1868' (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with scratching out
16¼ x 22½in. (41 x 57cm.)
Exhibited: Antoine Roux et Fils, at Musee Cantini, Marseilles, Feb 1955, No.10.
Provenance: Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles.
The steam auxiliary two-decker Algesiras was the nameship of a class of nine vessels designed by Dupuy de Lome and laid down in several French dockyards between 1848 and 1854. Built at Toulon, she was laid down in March 1853, launched on 4th October 1855, and first commissioned in September 1856. Measured at 5,160 tons displacement and 233 feet in length with a 53 foot beam, she mounted 90 guns of varying calibre and was fitted with a 900nhp. engine fired from eight boilers. Her engine was, in fact, so efficient that it was claimed she could steam at 14 knots and this so alarmed the Admiralty that it quickly led to improvements in engine design for comparable ships then under construction for the Royal Navy. Based at Toulon for her entire sea-going career, Algesiras was decommissioned in 1865 and put to work as a fleet transport. Later used as a school ship, she was accidentally destroyed by fire in Toulon harbour on 25th November 1906.
Sold for £6,200
Estimated at £2,500 - £3,500
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
FRANÇOIS GEFFROI ROUX (1811-1882)
Souvenir of my stay in May and June 1860 on board the [ship] Algesiras, Captain Vrignaud, [C.A. E. Paris], 3rd Division Mediterranian Squadran, under the orders of Vice Admiral Le Barbier de Tinan, casting off from the harbour of Hyères, the 8th May 1868.
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Frois Roux Marseille 1868' (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with scratching out
16¼ x 22½in. (41 x 57cm.)
Exhibited: Antoine Roux et Fils, at Musee Cantini, Marseilles, Feb 1955, No.10.
Provenance: Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles.
The steam auxiliary two-decker Algesiras was the nameship of a class of nine vessels designed by Dupuy de Lome and laid down in several French dockyards between 1848 and 1854. Built at Toulon, she was laid down in March 1853, launched on 4th October 1855, and first commissioned in September 1856. Measured at 5,160 tons displacement and 233 feet in length with a 53 foot beam, she mounted 90 guns of varying calibre and was fitted with a 900nhp. engine fired from eight boilers. Her engine was, in fact, so efficient that it was claimed she could steam at 14 knots and this so alarmed the Admiralty that it quickly led to improvements in engine design for comparable ships then under construction for the Royal Navy. Based at Toulon for her entire sea-going career, Algesiras was decommissioned in 1865 and put to work as a fleet transport. Later used as a school ship, she was accidentally destroyed by fire in Toulon harbour on 25th November 1906.
Souvenir of my stay in May and June 1860 on board the [ship] Algesiras, Captain Vrignaud, [C.A. E. Paris], 3rd Division Mediterranian Squadran, under the orders of Vice Admiral Le Barbier de Tinan, casting off from the harbour of Hyères, the 8th May 1868.
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Frois Roux Marseille 1868' (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with scratching out
16¼ x 22½in. (41 x 57cm.)
Exhibited: Antoine Roux et Fils, at Musee Cantini, Marseilles, Feb 1955, No.10.
Provenance: Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles.
The steam auxiliary two-decker Algesiras was the nameship of a class of nine vessels designed by Dupuy de Lome and laid down in several French dockyards between 1848 and 1854. Built at Toulon, she was laid down in March 1853, launched on 4th October 1855, and first commissioned in September 1856. Measured at 5,160 tons displacement and 233 feet in length with a 53 foot beam, she mounted 90 guns of varying calibre and was fitted with a 900nhp. engine fired from eight boilers. Her engine was, in fact, so efficient that it was claimed she could steam at 14 knots and this so alarmed the Admiralty that it quickly led to improvements in engine design for comparable ships then under construction for the Royal Navy. Based at Toulon for her entire sea-going career, Algesiras was decommissioned in 1865 and put to work as a fleet transport. Later used as a school ship, she was accidentally destroyed by fire in Toulon harbour on 25th November 1906.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Audacious), 27th Oct, 2010
