Greenwich and the Dreadnought

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).

Places

England, River Thames, London, Greenwich: Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich

Subjects

rowing boat, HMS 'Dreadnaught', barrel, topography, townscape/cityscape, river, hill, man, hospital, observatory, paddle steamer, sailboat, ship, Man o'War

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

William Parrott (1813 - 1869)

Title

Greenwich and the Dreadnought

Date

published c1842

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, April 1964

GAC number

6404