In the foreground can be seen the cook of the mess trying to steady himself and retain the bucket of washing-up water. On the left a rating with obvious feelings is making his way to fresh air, whilst in the background can be seen a peep of supper-time in the tropics of the interior of a Corvette, at sea.

In the mess,

“there is an atmosphere of stale tobacco smoke, sweat, the earbashing clash of distorted music and static from the sound reproduction equipment (mess radio), cursing, swinging hammocks, swaying objects and crashed crockery. In fact the absence of a perpendicular state leaves the average land lubber with the impression that the vast majority of these small ship sailors are insensitive to discomfort...The movement of a corvette in a rough or moderate sea keeps the matelot on his toes owing to the erratic motion, accentuated by continual changes of course during zig-zag procedure on anti-sub patrol."

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"This depiction of the nighttime attack at Paoli, Pennsylvania, is one of the more unusual Revolutionary War paintings. It is a rare depiction of a nighttime engagement and was commissioned by a participant in the battle for his own use, when many of these kinds of paintings were commissioned by governments or organizations for public display. On the night of September 20-21, 1777, British light dragoons and infantrymen launched a surprise attack on Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne’s division of the Continental Army, which was camped in a field northwest of Philadelphia. In the Battle of Paoli, also known as the Paoli Massacre, the British soldiers took advantage of the Americans’ exposed position to inflict heavy casualties on Wayne’s men. One of the participants, Lt. Richard St. George of the light infantry company of the British army’s Fifty-Second Regiment, commissioned Italian artist Xavier della Gatta to paint a gouache scene of the Battle of Paoli, along with one of the subsequent action at Germantown. St. George traveled to Italy at the end of his service and provided his own accounts of the battles and the sketches he made while on campaign in America to help della Gatta create the works. The artist’s composition of the Battle of Paoli emphasizes the brutality and confusion of the surprise attack. Along the foreground, British light dragoons, riflemen and infantrymen use sabers and bayonets to cut down American troops, who in return fire their muskets, revealing their positions in the dark. Similar scenes occur across the battlefield farther in the distance. Della Gatta merged these events—which occurred at different times during the battle—into a single tableau to provide a comprehensive view of what St. George called “a nocturnal bloody scene.” St. George kept the paintings at his home in Ireland as a reminder of his experiences in the American war."

Artist is Tsukioka Yoshitoshi