'Tenedos Dardanelles', 1854 (c)
Watercolour by Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).
Tenedos is a strategically placed island in the Aegean Sea at the entrance to the Dardanelles Strait. The island is reputed to be where the Greek fleet retired to and hid after leaving the Trojan Horse outside the gates of Troy, before returning to sack the city.
Markham painted this watercolour while his unit was en route to the Crimea. After passing though the Straits of Gibraltar his troopship would have steamed along the North African coast before stopping at Malta and then continuing east through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorous and out into the Black Sea.
From an album of watercolour paintings and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, relating to the Crimean War (1854-1856), 1854 (c).
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1999-02-105-16
Acknowledgement
Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1999-02-105-16