George Tuckwell's Original Illustration Art Of The HMS Rattler And Alecto Detailed Drawings

George Tuckwell's Original Illustration Art Of The HMS Rattler And Alecto Detailed Drawings. Good condition and fine detailed drawings of the two ships with Tuckwell's notation on placement, size and other information both front and back. One of a kind original illustration art for the book "Fighting Ships"

Reference: 206-32
Measures: 10 by 6.75

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HMS Rattler was a 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one of the first British warships to be completed with screw propulsion. She was originally ordered as a paddle wheel 4-gun steam vessel (Steam Vessel Second Class – SV2) from Sheerness Dockyard on 12 March 1841. She was reordered on 24 February 1842 as a propeller type 9-gun (867-ton BM type) sloop from HM Royal Dockyard, Sheerness, as a new vessel. William Symonds had redesigned the ship as a screw propeller driven vessel.
She was the fifth ship so named since the name was first introduced into the Royal Navy for a 16-gun sloop launched by Wilson of Sandgate on 22 March 1783 and sold on 6 September 1792.
The keel of Rattler was laid in April 1842 and launched on 13 April 1843[2] at Sheerness Dockyard. The length of her gundeck was 176 ft 6 in (53.80 m) with a keel length of 157 ft 9.5 in (48.09 m) with an overall length of 195 ft 0 in (59.44 m). Her maximum breadth was 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m) with 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m) reported for tonnage. Her Depth of hold was 18 ft 7.5 in (5.68 m). She had a mean draught of 11 ft 5.5 in (3.49 m). Her builder's measure for tonnage was 888 80⁄94 (bm) and she displaced 1,112 tons.
After launching, she was towed to East India Dock at Maudslay's yard to have her machinery installed. She was equipped with two fire tube rectangular boilers. Her engine was a Maudslay, Son & Field four-cylinder vertical single-expansion steam engine with double cylinders of 40.25 inches 40.25 in (1,022.35 mm) with a working stroke of 48 inches 48 in (1,219.20 mm), rated at 200 nhp. Once her machinery was installed, she was moved to Woolwich Dockyard where she was coppered.[3]
Her armament consisted of either a single 8-inch (60 cwt) muzzle loading smooth bore (MLSB) 8-foot 10-inch shell gun or a single 68-pounder (65 cwt) MLSB 10-foot solid shot gun on a pivot mount and eight Blomefeld 32-pounder (25cwt) MLSB solid shot guns (bored out 18-pounders) on broadside trucks.
Trials
Her propeller trials commenced on 30 October 1843. During her full power steam trials her engine generated 428 indicated horsepower (319 kW) for a speed of 10.074 knots (18.657 km/h).
The Rattler was completed for sea on 30 January 1845 at a first cost of machinery - £9,400 and fitting of £17,413.
HMS Alecto was an Alecto-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally classed as a steam vessel (SV3), her classification would be changed to a Third Class Sloop. She initially served in the Mediterranean, prior to her tug of war with the Rattler. She spent her time in the Americas and mainly on the anti-slavery patrol off the west coast of Africa. She was broken in November 1865
Alecto was the second named vessel since it was used for a 12-gun fireship, launched by King of Dover on 26 May 1781 and sold in 1802.
She was ordered on 25 February 1839 from Chatham Dockyard with her keel laid in July. She was launched about two months later 7 September. Following her launch, she was towed to Limehouse to have her boilers and machinery fitted. She returned to Chatham and was completed for sea on 12 December 1839 at an initial cost of £27,268 including the machinery cost of £10,700. She was decommissioned in 1865.
George Arthur Tuckwell, artist (1919-2000). Not much is known about the artist except the few works of art that have come to the market. It appears that he was also a book illustrator or worked on several books, including one titled "Fighting Ships" a story of the history of ships from the very early period to modern sea and air ships. This is a collection of George Tuckwell watercolors from that book. Tuckwell's draftsmanship of the ships are clean and well executed. His images of people follow his artistic lean toward the abstract. images for a book entitled Fighting Ships.
The period of the 1930s is epitomized by the conflict between several political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence worldwide. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to incorporate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political philosophies, developing a new kind of magic realism. Artistic output in the United States was heavily impacted at the time by the Great Depression, and several artists took to focusing on ideas of humbleness and the ordinary man. For the first time in US history, artists began to delve into political subjects and attempted to use their art to impact society. Themes including poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes were prevalent in many artists’ works. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret strategy to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty rare paintings by the Old Masters, several of which ended up in the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. The decade took a threatening turn with the birth of National Socialism in Germany, followed by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. By the end of the decade, the Second World War had begun, which preoccupied both artists and the global population.
• Campbell held two further solo exhibitions at the Piccadilly Gallery in October 1958 and January 1960. Pilkington, who was friendly with Waddington arranged for Campbell to be included in the group exhibition ‘Painting of the 20th Century’ in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1960. Dillon held his first solo show in London in 1967 at the Mercury Gallery. His Connemara images, ‘Fair Day, Clifden’, and ‘Next Stop, America’, had more appeal in America, where, in 1954, he had held a solo show at the Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco.
• Campbell also held a joint show with George Arthur Tuckwell (1919-2000) at the Piccadilly Gallery. (Catalogue untraced)
• painting by George Arthur Tuckwell (1919–2000), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford George Arthur Tuckwell WA1963.31 skull-142848
• painting by George Arthur Tuckwell (1919–2000), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford George Arthur Tuckwell WA2001.72 plant-abstract-142849
• Yachts, Tollesbury painting by George Tuckwell George Arthur Tuckwell 1960/8/1 https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/objects/43792/yachts-tollesbury
• George Arthur Tuckwell was a British artist who was born in 1919. George Arthur Tuckwell's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 181 USD to 1,140 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,140 USD for Organic forms, sold at Sworders in 2020. The artist died in 2000. Artist's alternative names: George Tuckwell
• Artist Record Prices
The 2023 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for JUDAS.
The 2020 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Organic forms.
The 2016 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Ox Head
The 2014 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Hill Patterns
The 2011 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Blakeny(sic), Norfolk."

Notes: Good condition, fine detailed drawings notations in pencil and ink by Tuckwell. See photos

$25 - $50

10" x 0.1" x 6"

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