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Call Number:
MSS 38
Creator:
Porcher, Edwin Augustus, 1824-1878
Title(s):
In the palace at Malta. The trumpet on which was sounded the retreat, on the final departure of the Knights of St. John from Rhodes. December A.D. 1522. Presented as a relic with great care by the Grand Masters. Sketched 29th March 1860.
Date:
1860 March 29
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Drawings
Part of Collection:
Oversize 2
Provenance:
E.A. Porcher donated 16 drawings related to his Cyrene expedition to the British Museum in 1865. He left his remaining papers and watercolor works to Lieut. Col. Cecil Du Pre Penton Powney (b. 1862), his sister’s surviving son, who donated views, plans and elevations from the Cyrene expedition to the British Museum in 1894. The remaining manuscripts and drawings were inherited by Powney’s daughter, Beryl Wyndham Powney (c. 1896 -1976). Several components of the Porcher collection were sold by private dealers beginning in the 1970s (see 'Related Archival Materials Note' for Porcher holdings in other institutional collections).
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Scope and Content:
Porcher’s image represents an artifact from the Siege of Rhodes (1522), when the Ottomans under Sultan Suleyman I expelled the Order of St. John from the Island of Rhodes (now Greece). Sir Ernest Barker describes the events: “Early in the morning of New Year’s Day, 1523, the trumpet of the Knights sounded for the last time in Rhodes; their fleet of thirty-one ships, with the refugees on board, put out to sea.” (Baker 51). Fifty vessels and approximately 5000 Rhodians departed the island, which was of strategic importance to the Turks, lying between Constantinople and Alexandria. In 1530, Charles V of Spain gave the Knights of St John control of the Maltese islands, but they became vassals of the King and pledged oath to the King of Sicily (Atauz 82).
Additional Notes:
B. 1977.14.22197
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor, body color, on medium-thick beige paper, affixed to card mount ; sheet 17 x 24 cm, mount 36.5 x 52 cm
Genre:
Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Diaries, Letters, and Ships' logs
Subject Terms:
Anglo-Burmese War, 2nd, 1852
Antiquities
Antiquities, Roman
Chron
Colonies
Description and travel
Excavations (Archaeology)
Fortification
Harbors
History
History, Naval
Junks
Navigation
Pagodas
Piracy
Pirates
Punic antiquities
Relics
Ships
Temples
Voyages and travels
Subject Period:
1849-1861
1850-1900
Siege, 1522
Associated Places:
Asia
Burma
Carthage (Extinct city)
China
China Sea
Cyrene (Extinct city)
East Asia
Gozo Island (Malta)
Grand Harbour (Malta)
Great Britain
Guangzhou (China)
Hong Kong (China)
Malta
Mellieh̳a (Malta)
Pulau Pinang (Malaysia : State)
Qrendi (Malta)
Rhodes (Greece : Island)
Singapore
Trincomalee (Sri Lanka)
Tunis (Tunisia)
Tunisia
Utica (Extinct city)
Valletta (Malta)
Associated People/Groups:
Knights of Malta. Fort St. Angelo (Birgu, Malta)
Finding Aid Title:
Edwin Augustus Porcher Collection
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2862
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2862?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1