Painting Bombarick Rock
- Description
- Psyche was a brig of war belonging to the British East India Company's private navy. It carried 32 guns and was commanded by Captain Edgecombe. Piracy was a constant danger, so besides carrying marine insurance, some bigger companies employed their own private navies to help ward off attack. The picture shows the East India Company's brig of war Psyche attacking and chasing Arab pirates around Bombarick rock in the Persian Gulf on September 13, 1816.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1840
- maker
- Hornbrook, Thomas L.
- Physical Description
- oil on canvas (overall material)
- Measurements
- without frame: 23 in x 18 in; 58.42 cm x 45.72 cm
- with frame: 14 3/4 in x 20 1/2 in; 37.465 cm x 52.07 cm
- ID Number
- 2005.0279.056
- accession number
- 2005.0279
- catalog number
- 2005.0279.056
- Credit Line
- Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
- subject
- Maritime
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Maritime
- Art
- Cigna Maritime Collection
- Transportation
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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