Fred Roe - Good bye My Lads Admiral Nelson leaving Portsmouth for Trafalgar

Good-bye, My Lads! (Admiral Nelson leaving Portsmouth for Trafalgar)

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Title:	Good-bye, My Lads! (Admiral Nelson leaving Portsmouth for Trafalgar)
Designer:	Roe, Fred (London, 1864 - 1947)
Date:	1905
Medium:	Original Chromolithograph
Publisher:	The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Printer:	G. Whitehead and Company, London
Note:	Fred Roe: A fine English genre painter and illustrator, Fred Roe studied art at Heatherley's and with J. Seymour Lucas. He first exhibited his art at the prestigious Royal Academy in 1877 and was elected to the RBA in 1895 and to the Royal Institute of British Painters in 1909. During his career, Roe was best known for his large historical compositions set in period costumes. Also he later became a leading expert and collector of antique furniture and was the author of a still standard reference book, A History of Oak Furniture (1920).
	Good-bye, my Lads! depicts Admiral Nelson leaving Portsmouth for Trafalgar, England's most famous naval battle. At Trafalgar, Nelson confronted the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of Napoleon and (although greatly outgunned) completely routed his adversary. At the end, France lost fifteen of its thirty-three ships while England lost none. English casualties, in fact, amounted to only 449 men. Unfortunately, England's greatest admiral was one of them.
	The Chromolithograph: The exacting art of colour printing from lithographic stones originated in Europe during the middle 1830's. The first English chromolithograph was created almost ten years later. During the following seventy years thousands of these original colour prints were framed to adorn the walls of Victorian parlours, with images ranging from the fine arts to botanical and fashionable designs and advertisements. These colour prints revolutionized the art industry. By 1870, large and profitable publishing houses sprang up in almost every major American and European city. The practical advances of photomechanical methods, however, sounded the death knell for the chromolithograph in the early years of the twentieth century.
	Today, chromolithographs (especially large examples such as this) have became very scarce. The major blame falls on the ruinous methods of framers from the period as they invariably employed the most acidic and damaging materials at hand. The result is that the vast majority of these important works of art have quite literally rotted away in their frames.
Size:	22 1/2 X 32 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with full margins as published in London, England, in 1905. Containing slight creasing, as usual, else a magnificent impression and in excellent condition throughout. To find such a large chromolithograph without significant discolouration or staining is most rare. Good-bye, My Lads! (Admiral Nelson leaving Portsmouth for Trafalgar) is one of the greatest original chromolithographs one will find.
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