Lot 116: CHARLES GORE 1729-1807

SHIPPING OFF HELIGOLAND, NORTH SEA

measurements note
17.5 by 37 cm., 7 by 14 1/2 in.

inscribed u.l.: Rabbit Island Heligoland and l.r.: Rabbit Island...Heligoland/about a mile to the East

pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil on laid paper, watermarked

PROVENANCE

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a)

NOTE

Heligoland, known for its large rabbit population, is a small island in the North Sea, situated thirty-six miles north west of the mouth of the Elbe. It is one mile long from north to south and one third of a mile from east to west. The island, taken by the British from the Danes in 1807 and formally ceded to England in 1814, was then given to Germany in 1890, in return for concessions made to Britain in East Africa