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Attention to detail

Of Pickle, of an insight into [some] details you may like to appreciate in my paintings of HMS Pickle [“I Have Urgent Dispatches” is available in Museum quality print from £147 inc p&p].
HMS Pickle – I have urgent dispatches
I am prompted to write following some comments on the Facebook page ‘The sailing frigates, ship sloops and war brigs 1620-1870’.
 
Seeing the Pickle as a maritime diorama via the beautiful work from Craig Rosner set me in motion.
I’d be very happy to show that diorama on my blog and Facebook page if Mr. Rosner so wished.
Christopher A Sorenson’s keen eye for detail spotted I think the fore course is an error.  

I researched, travelled and consulted extensively for my paintings of Pickle “I Have Urgent Dispatches“, in Britain and abroad. 
Pickle detail, men at work
As far as I know she did not carry a fore course, no British or French schooners of war set a fore course, as far as I know … Dr. Colin White at that time head of the Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth, Mr. Peter Goodwin Keeper and Curator of HMS Victory stated Pickle was rated ‘schooner’ by the time of Trafalgar.
Had she carried and set a fore course that would have made her a brigantine.
With them we also agreed the fine model of a British topsail schooner of war in the RNM, recently claimed to be of HMS Pickle, was not ‘Pickle’.
 
Colin thought it was HMS Haddock and knew who built it.
Colin also told me the builder, a retired R N admiral had asked not to have his name published so I won’t reveal the name.

We agreed the model, with a few minor changes, [no raised quarter deck, flush decked, etc] was a fair representation of HMS Pickle type. 

Pickle detail Lt Lapentiore
I made the changes they recommended in my paintings of the vessel.
 
If I could afford this I’d want the fore course removed.
Still, that in no way detracts from Craig Rosner’s skilful, beautiful work.
I’d guess my good friend Captain Mal Nicholson would also have an interesting opinion on this.
Gentlemen, you prompt me to ask him via this post.
You can see my ‘Nelson and Trafalgar’ collection online at https://www.frickers.co.uk/art/marine-art/war-ships/the-trafalgar-collection/