#thomas whitcombe

[weary-hearted-art]

Thomas Whitcombe, The East Indiaman, ‘Duke of Buccleuch’, July 2nd, 1797, 1797

#thomas whitcombe #late eighteenth century #art

[clove-pinks]

One of the more inexplicable decisions of the 19th century Royal Navy is... that time they stopped caring about having an educational institution for properly educating midshipmen to be competent and knowledgeable officers? During the Pax Britannica, when Britain ruled the waves with a growing empire, and there was no need to cut corners this way??

Standards weren’t relaxed, and young gentlemen still had to pass their exam for lieutenant with six years of sea service, but the Royal Naval College to train them was abolished in 1837.

By 1838 educational provisions for young gentlemen had regressed to pre-1733 levels; circumstances that did not bode well for the academic (and professional) future of the officer corps. No significant improvements to the system took place until 1857, when Captain Robert Harris offered up his own son as a test case in order to experiment with officer training aboard HMS Illustrious. The success of Harris’s efforts saw ‘naval cadets’ (the new title for aspirants which superseded that of ‘1st-class volunteer’ in 1843) presented with the first programme of standardized education and training offered since the closure of the College.

— S.A. Cavell, Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831

HMS Illustrious (1803) heading out of Table Bay in choppy conditions and a stiff breeze, by Thomas Whitcombe c. 1811 (detail) (Wikimedia Commons)

#midshipman monday #age of sail #midshipmen #royal navy #naval history #military history #great britain #age of steam #hms illustrious #thomas whitcombe #naval art #the sea #samantha a cavell #midshipmen and quarterdeck boys in the royal navy #education

[marryat92]

Our captain, who was a dashing sort of a fellow, contrived to brush up the enemy’s quarters, on the coast of France. On one of our boat expeditions, I contrived to slip away with the rest; we landed, and surprised a battery, which we blew up, and spiked the guns. The French soldiers ran for their lives, and we plundered the huts of some poor fishermen.

— Frederick Marryat, The Naval Officer (Frank Mildmay)

A British frigate and an armed cutter, patrolling off the French coast, painting by Thomas Whitcombe circa 1804.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #age of sail #royal navy #frank mildmay #napoleonic wars #thomas whitcombe #frigate #naval art #cutter #plunder #english literature #british literature #at least he's honest...?

[meisterdrucke]

Shipping off Dover by Thomas Whitcombe Roy Miles Fine Paintings

#Thomas Whitcombe #fineart #art #painting #artwork #masterpiece #fineartprint #gallery #museum #sailing #segel #sailingship

[ltwilliammowett]

A two-decker rounding the lighthouse, by Thomas Whitcombe (1760-1824)

#naval art #two decker #lighthouse #17th century #age of sail

[poetrywithbrian]

POETRY LIST FROM BRIAN P: This list is made up of English language “lyric” poems by poets from what would become or is now the United States of America. They are in a random arrangement, not alphabetical or chronological. Allow them to play off each other in a variety of ways. Each poet is represented by only one poem.

May Swenson, The Centaur

Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus

Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby Poem

Hart Crane, Voyages

H.D. Elegy and Choros

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Amy Lowell, The Garden by Moonlight

N. Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

Francis Scott Key, Defense of Fort M’Henry

Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

Robert Hayden, Letter from Phyllis Wheatley

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’

James Dickey, Cherrylog Road

Chen Chen, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

Bonnie Larson Staiger, Grassland

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

e.e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Carl Sandburg, Chicago

James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snowstorm

Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

Tommy Pico, I See the Fire that Burns Inside You

Emily Dickinson, “I started early – took my dog””

T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris

Anonymous, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Gary Snyder, The Bath

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

James Whitcomb Riley, L’il Orphant Annie

James Merrill, The Victor Dog

James Welch, Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation

Frank O’Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter

John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

William Carlos Williams, XXII, from Spring and All, The Red Wheelbarrow

Tupac Shakur, Changes

George Oppen, Five Poems about Poetry

Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood’s Party

Richard Wright, Between the World and Me

John Greenleaf Whittier, Snowbound: A Winter’s Idyl

Phyllis Wheatley, His Excellency General Washington

Walt Whitman, When lilacs last by the dooryard bloom’d

Patricia Smith, The Stuff of Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth

Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

R.W. Wilson, Poemable

Marianne Moore, The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic

Sylvia Plath, Tulips

Patricia Smith, The Stuff of Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth

Thomas McGrath, A Coal Fire in Winter

Growing Concern Poetry Collective, Come to Me Open

Denise Lajimodiere, Dragonfly Dance

Edward Taylor, Housewifery

Jay Wright, Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson

Allen Ginsberg, Howl

David Solheim, In Moonlight

William Stafford, At the Bomb Testing Site

Ronald Johnson, Letters to Walt Whitman

Marge Piercy, To Be of Use

Mary Oliver, The Wild Geese

Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

W.H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant

Richard Blanco, On Today

Timothy Murphy, Mortal Stakes

Lauryn Hill, Lost One

Don J. Lee/Haki Madhubuti, A Poem to Complement Other Poems

Louise Erdrich, The Strange People

Jericho Brown, Psalm 150

John Berryman, 11 Addresses to the Lord

Thomas Merton, Love Winter When the Plant Says Nothing

Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children

Frances E. W. Harper, Learning to Read

Randall Jarrell, Mail Call, and the children’s book “The Bat Poet”

Herman Melville, The Maldive Shark

Gertrude Stein, How She Bowed to Her Brother

Anne Sexton, In Celebration of My Uterus

Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why”

Stephen Crane, A Man Saw a Ball of Gold

Robert Penn Warren, The Moonlight’s Dream

Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Colored Band

Henry David Thoreau, “The moon now rises to her absolute rule”

Emma Lazarus. The New Colossus

Sugar Hill Gang, Rapper’s Delight

Allen Tate, Ode to the Confederate Dead

Muriel Rukeyser, Ballad of Orange and Grape

Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina, “September rain falls on the house”

Judy Grahn, The Common Woman Poems (complete)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I Am Waiting

May Sarton, The Gift of Thyme

George Moses Horton, On Liberty and Slavery

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks

James Weldon Johnson, The Creation

Sherman Alexie, Sonnet, with Pride

Kenneth Koch, In Love With You

Jupiter Hammon, An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley

A.R. Ammons, The Brook Has Worked Out the Prominence of a Bend

Anonymous, Go Down, Moses

Yusef Komunyakaa. Facing It

W.S. Merwin, After the Alphabets

Richard Wilbur, A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

Natalie Diaz, My Brother at 3 AM

Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning

Raymond Roseliep, The Morning Glory

Rita Dove, Dawn Revisted

#class 3

[toneast1960]

*UNEXPECTED LOVE*

(SMOOTH REMIX)

▪︎John Purcell - Saxello & Tenor Sax

▪︎Jayon Thomas - Lead Vocals

▪︎Stevan Swan - Lead Vocals

▪︎Bruce Whitcomb - Guitar | Bass>

https://www.jango.com/music/Tony+Underwood+TONE+EAST+MUSIC/UNEXPECTED+LOVE+REMIX

#unexpectedlove #uniquetuba #toneast #jazzsax #jazzrandb #toneastculture #toneasthistory #toneastuba #uniquetuba #originaltuba #tubahistoryonline #tubawiggle #dancintuba #tubahistory #toneasteducation #toneastmusic #tonetek #toneastech #toneastek #tonetech #toneastproductions

#tone_east_music_technology

[hzaidan]

This painting is unusual in depicting ships engaged in battle while carrying full sails, including their studded sails. It was difficult to man the guns and set the full complement of sails. Full sail was needed here because the ships were engaged in a chase…

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Art,Paintings,Sand,artist,Umbrellas,biography,History,Sea,Beach,Marine,Zaidan,Ships,Seascape,Thomas Whitcombe,footnotes,Aigle, Sirene,

01 Marine Painting, Thomas Whitcombe's Action between Aigle & Sirene, with Footnotes #287

#Marine #Art #Sea #Zaidan #biography #Paintings #History #Ships #beach #footnotes #fineart #Harbor

[stirlingmoss]

The Thames at Chelsea

Thomas Whitcombe (1784)

[aussie-wbb]

FIBAWWC - thoughts on minutes

Of the teams remaining, USA and China have the advantage when it comes to players with rest. Looking at cumulative minutes (westernised names):

Bridget Carleton - 190

Kayla Alexander - 187

Shay Colley - 174

Steph Talbot - 168

Sami Whitcomb - 161

Nirra Fields - 161

Natalie Achonwa - 148

Meng Li - 13

Alyssa Thomas - 134

Breanna Stewart - 131

Sijing Huang - 129

Marianna Tolo - 129

Ezi Magbegor - 128

Canada has spots 1-3 and 6-7. Australia has 4-5 and 12-13. China has 8 and 11. USA has 9-10. Clearly, China and USA have fresher legs. That being said, USA's Aces cumulative minutes are low because they came late, those aren't exactly fresh legs (but also, it's the USA).

#fibawwc #fiba women's world cup

[readingrex]

I think the next big paranormal wave (i.e. vampires, zombies, etc) is already starting, and it’s ghosts. So if you’re on the lookout for some ghost stories, here are a few of my favorites:

Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

The Raven Boys Quartet by Maggie Stiefvater

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

The Archived by Victoria Schwab

Release by Patrick Ness

The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones

Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde

The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs

and some on my TBR list:

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

A New Haunt for Mr. Bierce by Drew Bridges

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

The Spirits Up by Todd Babiak

#if you have any to recommend I'd love to hear them! #I love a good ghost story

[rhianna]

Bibliographic Record

Author

Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924

Title   How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves

Contents   Marshall Field -- Bell Telephone talk: hints on success by Alexander G. Bell -- Why the American people like Helen Gould -- Philip D. Armour's business career -- What Miss Mary E. Proctor did to popularize astronomy -- The boyhood experience of President [Jacob Gould] Schurman of Cornell University -- The story of John Wanamaker -- Giving up five thousand a year to become a sculptor [F. Wellington Ruckstuhl] -- Questions and answers: business pointers by Ogden Mills -- [Lillian] Nordica: what it costs to become a queen of song -- How he worked to secure a foot-hold: William Dean Howells -- John D. Rockefeller -- The author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic [Julia Ward Howe]: her views of education for young women -- A talk with [Thomas A.] Edison: dramatic incidents in his early life -- A fascinating story by General Lew Wallace -- [Andrew] Carnegie as a metal worker -- John B. Herreshoff, the yacht builder -- A successful novelist: fame after fifty: practical hints to young authors, by Amelia E. Barr -- How Theodore Thomas brought the people nearer to music -- John Burroughs at home: the hut on the hill top -- [Herbert H.] Vreeland's romantic story: how he came to transport a million passengers a day -- How James Whitcomb Riley came to be master of the Hoosier dialect.

Language    English

LoC Class

HF: Social sciences: Commerce

Subject

Success

Subject

United States -- Biography

Category   Text

EBook-No.64059

Release Date   Dec 16, 2020

Copyright Status    Public domain in the USA.

#success #biography #commerce #united states #project gutenberg

[clove-pinks]

War of 1812 Wednesday: A Glorious First of June

I periodically bring up Sir John Franklin’s status as a War of 1812 veteran, but I have assumed that it’s more of a piece of trivia than anything else—a footnote in his career even if he took a bullet to his shoulder as part of raiding party at the Battle of Lake Borgne. 

Franklin was a midshipman on HMS Intrepid during the circumnavigation of Australia, he was at the Battle of Trafalgar in the thick of the action (narrowly missing a French sniper’s bullet), and of course he became famous for his polar exploits long before the 1845 Franklin Expedition. I didn’t think that Franklin would be dwelling much on the War of 1812, especially not late in his career in the 1840s. But I was wrong!

Invitation card to a ball aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, hosted by James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier, 1841 (Derbyshire Record Office).

Sir John Franklin was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land when Erebus and Terror wintered there in 1841, and of course he attended the ball. Although the date of 1st June appears to be a coincidence and not selected for any special significance, noted Franklinheads @explorersaremadeofhope @kljjfnotes​ and Olga Kimmins of The Thousandth Part brought it to my attention that it acquired a Glorious First of June title.

The usual “Glorious First of June” in the Royal Navy is the Fourth Battle of Ushant in 1794, but Sir John Franklin had a different battle in mind:

[all the company continued standing while the national anthem was performed by the full Band. The next toast in succession by Captain Ross was “His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor,” to which Sir John Franklin responded, by observing that the day set apart for the festive occasion by Captain Ross, was one that Englishmen might well be proud; it was the anniversary of one of the most splendid naval victories that adorned the pages of our history—it was a day rendered historical by the battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake—and it was also a day considered sacred to science by the discovery by the gallant officer who had proposed his health, of the North Magnetic Pole.]

Franklin hears the first of June and immediately goes to HMS SHANNON VS. USS CHESAPEAKE?! I was not expecting that at all, and have give Franklin more credit for his taste.

The celebrated engagement during which H.M.S. “Shannon” captured the American frigate “Chesapeake”, 1st June 1813, Thomas Whitcombe (Wikimedia Commons).

#War of 1812 Wednesday #war of 1812 #age of sail #sir john franklin #james clark ross #.uss chesapeake #hms shannon #glorious first of june #north magnetic pole #royal navy #naval history #polar #thomas whitcombe #naval battle #art #the sea #military history

[marryat92]

New Reading Marryat Blog Mug, which just so happens to use the William Behnes portrait of Captain Marryat on one side (same as this blog's icon)

...and on the other side, Thomas Whitcombe's painting, Destruction of the French Fleet in Basque Roads, same as this blog's header image. HMS Imperieuse is front and center, where young Mr. Midshipman Frederick Marryat served under Captain Thomas Cochrane.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #thomas cochrane #lord thomas cochrane #age of sail #mugs #kudos to my wife for making this! #battle of the basque roads #thomas whitcombe #william behnes

[meisterdrucke]

After the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21st, 1805, engraved by F.C. Lewis for The Naval Chronology of Great Britain by J. Ralfe, published 1820 by Thomas Whitcombe coloured engraving, 1820 Private Collection

#Thomas Whitcombe #fineart #art #painting #artwork #masterpiece #fineartprint #gallery #museum

[ltwilliammowett]

Battle Scene in the English Channel between American Ship Wasp and the English Brig Reindeer, by Thomas Whitcombe 1814

#naval art #uss wasp #hms reindeer #war of 1812 #age of sail