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<p>[QUOTE="rhiwfield, post: 78663, member: 924"]You peeps did so well on the Konigsallee lion that I thought you deserved a treat and help answer this how they did it question <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. Here is a photo by Groom & Company, 83 Union Street, Plymouth and 45 High Street Exeter (sorry about faint watermarks, we will want to sell this image in due course). It shows a vessel named Conqueror heeling over in rough seas. This would seem to be HMS Conqueror which was lost at Rum Cay in December 1861.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rootsweb forum states "Groom & Co were at 83 Union Street Plymouth in 1862 (by 1870 Groom, David &Co. same studio at different address?). No record of a Groom photographer at Plymouth in 1881 census."</p><p><br /></p><p>This appears to be a real photo of the period but I don't think they had the technology at the time to take a real life picture like this so I think it is a photo of an oil painting. Looking very closely I think I can see brushstrokes and the weave of the underlying canvas. <i>Can we find the original painting?</i></p><p><i><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/033_zpsp4forlfy.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i></p><p><i><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/034_zpsl9cbrizd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i></p><p><i><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/035_zpsujldd6le.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rhiwfield, post: 78663, member: 924"]You peeps did so well on the Konigsallee lion that I thought you deserved a treat and help answer this how they did it question ;). Here is a photo by Groom & Company, 83 Union Street, Plymouth and 45 High Street Exeter (sorry about faint watermarks, we will want to sell this image in due course). It shows a vessel named Conqueror heeling over in rough seas. This would seem to be HMS Conqueror which was lost at Rum Cay in December 1861. Rootsweb forum states "Groom & Co were at 83 Union Street Plymouth in 1862 (by 1870 Groom, David &Co. same studio at different address?). No record of a Groom photographer at Plymouth in 1881 census." This appears to be a real photo of the period but I don't think they had the technology at the time to take a real life picture like this so I think it is a photo of an oil painting. Looking very closely I think I can see brushstrokes and the weave of the underlying canvas. [I]Can we find the original painting? [IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/033_zpsp4forlfy.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/034_zpsl9cbrizd.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/035_zpsujldd6le.jpg[/IMG] [/I][/QUOTE]
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