These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Dish: The Capture of Chagre
Production:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
Painter:
Flower, Joseph
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white and painted in blue. Circular with a narrow rim, and shallow well. The front is decorated overall with a highly detailed depiction the Capture of Chagres, over which is a scroll inscribed 'The taking of CHAGRE in/the West Indies by Adm' vernon/A. The Town./ B. The Castle./ C.C. the Custom-house on fire.D.D./ 2 Spanish guarda costa sloops./E.E.E. Goods from ye Custom-house./F.F. Bomb. Ketches./G. Flag of truce hung out by ye Span.' On the back there are four Chinese-inspired floral sprays. In the background there are wooded hills inscribed with 'The Road from Portobello', and 'The Road to Panama', The river is inscribed 'River Chagre' in three places, and there are several letters attached to other features.
History note: Joseph Flower, Bristol; by descent to James Flower Fussell, Abbots Leigh, Bristol, 1873; Mrs E.J. Swann, Leigh Woods, Bristol; bought from Mrs Swann in 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 45 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
After
1740-08
-
1741
The painter, Joseph Flower, was apprenticed in 1736 to Richard Frank proprietor of the Redcliff Back pottery in Bristol, but this dish was not necessarily made in that pottery.
The scene on the dish was copied from a print entitled 'An exact Account of Vice Admiral Vernon's taking the Castle & Town of Chagre in ye West Indies' published in August 1740 and sold by H. Overton at the White Horse without Newgate. The print celebrates Vice-Admiral taking his fleet up the river Chagre to attack the Spanish fort and town of San Lorenzo el Real, which controlled trade to Panama and Peru.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Decoraton
bluish-white
Tin-glazing
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue
Accession number: C.1568-1928
Primary reference Number: 72235
Old object number: R 1011
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish: The Capture of Chagre" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72235 Accessed: 2024-11-04 17:57:15
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72235
|title=Dish: The Capture of Chagre
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-04 17:57:15|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-72235
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1568_1928_20_281_29.jpg"
alt="Dish: The Capture of Chagre"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Dish: The Capture of Chagre</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
