Francis Price Blackwood b. 1809

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No original work of Francis Price Blackwood's exists, but a woodcut after one of his sketches was published in a volume by Harden Sidney Melville in 1867.
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sketcher and naval officer, was born on 25 May 1809, second son of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood and his third wife Harriet, née Jore. He entered the Royal Navy on 6 December 1821, was promoted commander in 1830 and given command of the Hyacinth at the East India Station in 1833. From 1841 he was commander of the Fly expedition which, with its tender Bramble , conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the north-eastern Australian coast in 1842-46 and visited many islands in the Pacific. A woodcut, Houses at New Guinea , was stated by the Fly 's draughtsman Harden Sidney Melville to have been taken from a sketch by Captain Blackwood when it was published in Melville’s pseudonymous Adventures of a Griffin (London 1867).

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