File:SS Dunedin by Frederick Tudgay.JPG
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Summary
Frederick Tudgay: Dunedin
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The 1320 ton 73 metre Dunedin was built by Robert Duncan and Co at Port Glasgow in 1874 at a cost of ₤23,750. In 1881, still wearing the original Albion Line colours of black hull and gold band and pink boot topping in the painting, she was refitted with a Bell Coleman refrigeration machine with which she took the first frozen load of meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Although experimental voyages with refrigerated shipping had been made the previous year by Australian and American vessels, the Dunedins trip was the first fully successful refrigerated shipment. The Dunedin continued in the frozen meat trade until she was lost without trace in 1890, en route from New Zealand to the UK - it is presumed she hit an iceberg off Cape Horn. |
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| Date | 1875 | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 47 cm (18.5 in); width: 77 cm (30.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Object history | originally owned by the Ship's captain, John Whitson. | |||||||||||||||||
| Notes | To quote the present owners, Hocken Librarian, Stuart Strachan, says "the oil painting of the cargo ship 'Dunedin', by Frederick Tudgay, is an "iconic work". It represents the first shipment of refrigerated meat from Otago and is the most contemporary painting of its time, as it is the only one painted in the original Albion Line colours of black hull and gold band and pink boot topping, under which it sailed to England with the frozen meat. | |||||||||||||||||
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Image source: Hocken Library. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Off2riorob using CommonsHelper., Original uploader was Winstonwolfe at en.wikipedia, 27 May 2007 (original upload date) |
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
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- 2007-05-27 04:42 Winstonwolfe 1650×1089× (312957 bytes) 1875 painting of [[SS Dunedin]],47cm by 77cm oil on canvas by [[Frederick Tudgay]] (1841-1921), originally owned by the Ship's captain, John Whitson. The 1320 ton 73 metre Dunedin was built by Robert Duncan and Co at Port [[Glasgow]] in 1874 at a cos
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