"Captain Aubrey's Commands"

Artist-Signed & Numbered Limited Edition on Canvas

Edition of 250

Image size: 17 x 25 1/2 inches (43 x 65 cm)

Prints on canvas are varnished and are signed & numbered by the artist in black ink. Unframed canvas prints are supplied unstretched, rolled in strong cardboard tubes. There is a 2 inch (5 cm) white border around the image.

Geoff Hunt in his book The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt writes:

"This picture brings together vessels from different stages of Captain Aubrey's career in the Royal Navy. To the right is the 14-gun brig-sloop Sophie of 1801, his first independent command as 'Master and Commander'. A tiny vessel by modern standards, only 78 feet long on the gun-deck - scarcely more than a yacht - nevertheless her crew numbered between 80 and 90 all told.

At middle left is the 28-gun frigate Surprise, the ex-French corvette L'Unité, aboard which so many of Aubrey's adventures are set.

In the middle distance looms the 74-gun battleship Bellona; while the ship at the extreme left distance, if an identity be required, is the 50-gun Leopard, lagging behind the others as 50-gun ships were prone to do.

All these vessels had a real existence in the Royal Navy under those names, except Sophie. The vessels carry the appropriate flags for their respective stages in Aubrey's career; The Bellona, for example, carries a commodore's broad pennant at the main. As for the setting, it is the Mediterranean, off whose rocky and scented coasts Aubrey spent so much of his career."

We also have an extremely rare Artist's Proof for sale, no. 16/50