. English: 'A Waterman at Portsmouth Point' [Bray album] No. 16 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a waterman signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). This and PAJ1990, both made at Portsmouth before Bray sailed in the 'Pallas' for Africa in December 1774 are unique, specific records of the low-life denizens of a vanished waterfront world. They are two of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1
. English: 'A Waterman at Portsmouth Point' [Bray album] No. 16 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a waterman signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). This and PAJ1990, both made at Portsmouth before Bray sailed in the 'Pallas' for Africa in December 1774 are unique, specific records of the low-life denizens of a vanished waterfront world. They are two of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest. A Waterman at Portsmouth Point . November 1774. Gabriel Bray 2 'A Waterman at Portsmouth Point' (Bray album) RMG PT1991
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