Strickland (Algernon), Manuscript log of HMS Undaunted under Captain Edward Harvey, Log of HMS Undaunted Kept by A Strickland Commencing 25th December 1831 ending 10th February 1834, including hand-drawn map of Africa and India; with 249 pages on 125 leaves in manuscript, 4to; together with 5 volumes of drawings and sketches by Algernon Strickland in pen, pencil and watercolour, predominantly of ships and coastal landscapes dated 1828, 1829, 1830/Note: HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814. In November 1831 she was recommissioned under Captain Edward Harvey. Undaunted was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, on the African and East India stations, during which Harvey commanded a squadron at the time of an insurrection on the Île de France. The ship eventually returned to England on 1 February 1834, the Undaunted ran aground off Selsey Bill, West Sussex. Algernon Strickland (?-1853) was the son of Henry Eustatius Strickland (1777-1865)
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Strickland (Algernon), Manuscript log of HMS Undaunted under Captain Edward Harvey, Log of HMS Undaunted Kept by A Strickland Commencing 25th December 1831 ending 10th February 1834, including hand-drawn map of Africa and India; with 249 pages on 125 leaves in manuscript, 4to; together with 5 volumes of drawings and sketches by Algernon Strickland in pen, pencil and watercolour, predominantly of ships and coastal landscapes dated 1828, 1829, 1830/Note: HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814. In November 1831 she was recommissioned under Captain Edward Harvey. Undaunted was employed at the Cape of Good Hope, on the African and East India stations, during which Harvey commanded a squadron at the time of an insurrection on the Île de France. The ship eventually returned to England on 1 February 1834, the Undaunted ran aground off Selsey Bill, West Sussex. Algernon Strickland (?-1853) was the son of Henry Eustatius Strickland (1777-1865)
Auction: Asian Art & Books, 19th Sep, 2023