Title

'The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)', c1876, (1948). Creator: James Tissot.

Caption

'The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)', c1876, (1948). A young naval officer flirts with a woman who hides her smile behind a fan. Between them stands a chaperone. Both women are wearing the bustle, a Victorian padded undergarment which accentuated the waist. The scene is the deck of a ship in the dockyard at Portsmouth on the Hampshire coast. Painting in the Tate Gallery, London. From "English Fashion", by Alison Settle. [Collins, London, 1948]

Date

1877

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D53_317

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

32,5Mb (1,9Mb) / 12,7in x 9,9in / 3824 x 2973 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation blue England female women woman people male looking man men fashion arts country fan white book guy ship ships British English color hiding hampshire deck railings dress location Victorian century amusement Britain enjoyment literature bustle fashionable concept 1940s flirtation Forties Colour on deck 19th century water transport Portsmouth 20th century chaperone nineteenth century The Print Collector decade TGN looking at view HMS Calcutta on board white colour James Tissot Collins Coide JJ Tissot James Jacques Tissot Tissot James English Fashion Alison Settle Alison Towers Settle Settle Alison Alison Violet de Froideville Fuchs