smoking chimneys and fallen women - the several reinventions of sir henry hart

Smoking Chimneys & Fallen Women

The several reinventions of Sir Henry Hart.

ByHeather Noel-Smith

and Lorna M. Campbell

Maritime Masculinities 1815 – 1940, Oxford, December 2016

Block cut by: George Pike Nicholls © British Museum, CC BY NC SA.

Published by Boydell & Brewer

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth,

by James Northcote, © National Portrait Gallery.

Robert Lindsey as Edward Pellew and Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower© ITV, Rex, Shutterstock

Things as they were, 1783. Things as they are 1823, F.W. Ommanney, © Royal Museums Greenwich.

Persuasion by Jane Austen Illustration by C.E. Brock

Public Domain image

HMS Indefatigable Joining the Western Squadron by J.T. Serres, 1800, © Christies.

Captain Sir John Gore, Vice Admiral of the Red, British School.© Royal Museums Greenwich.

Sir Percival HartCC BY, Yale Center for

British Art

Panama from Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way by Theodore T Johnson. Public Domain image.

Am I Not a Man and a Brother, public domain image.Abolition of the Slave Trade in The Gentleman’s Magazine, July to December 1819.

A View of the Petrifying Sprind called the Dropping Well, at Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, by Thomas Smith. Public Domain image.

Muskat Harbour from the Fisher-mens Rock, by Lt R. Temple, 1813 , © Royal Museums Greenwich.

“He is a great man, and on many occasions appears to forget he was a seaman. He is a bit with the dignity of the Corps Diplomatique.”Memoirs of the life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew

Queen Victoria in her Coronation Robes after Franz Xaver Winterhaler.Public Domain image.

“At six o ‘clock the Prince de Joinville dined with the President in a large party, composed of the Corps Diplomatique, the members of the Cabinet, now in this city, Lord Prudhoe, brother ofthe Duke of Northumberland, and Sir Henry Hart, both of the Royal Navy, and many distinguished officers of our own Army and Navy.”New York Tribune, 19 July 1841.

Marine Society Trading Card, 1818, © British Museum.

Greenwich Hospital, English School, c. 1830 - 1840, © Royal Museums Greenwich.

Yard of Probationary House of the London Female Mission, © NMRC, English Heritage.

“….after briefly referring  to the various means by which the Mission is aiming to elevate the standards of morals of good character stated that, while the managers attached great importance to every measure calculated to prevent virtuous females from being ensnared and corrupted,   they could not overlook the necessity  of strenuous exertions to rescue from present misery  and everlasting ruin those who were living in open sin.” The Female’s Advocate, under the superintendence of the committee of the London Female Mission, Vol. 1, ( L and G Seeley, Fleet Street, 1838)

Victorian Tales from Weymouth and Portland, https://susanhogben.wordpress.com/

The Needlewoman at Home and Abroad, unattributed, Punch, 1850, © The Illustrated News Ltd at Mary Evans Picture Library.

Will of Sir Henry Hart

The Repertory of Patent Inventions, Vol XIII, January – June 1849. London.

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Replica by Franz Xaver Winterhaler

© National Portrait Gallery

The Queen's House from the north-east showing north facade and terrace, by John Charnock. © Royal Museums Greenwich.

The Illustrated London News, Jan 3 1857

Further Information

• Indefatigable1797.wordpress.com– http://indefatigable1797.wordpress.com

• Heather Noel-Smith–Heather.noel-smith@sky.com

• Lorna M. Campbell– Lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com