Malta: Royal Naval Hospital or Bighi Hospital, with sailors dancing on the shore. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J. Parker, 1843, after C.F. de Brocktorff, ca. 1819 (?).

1843

1 drawing : pen and ink, with watercolour ; image and border 21.2 x 35.3 cm

Malta Naval Hospital. Painted by John Parker from an eng<ravin>g C. de. Bro: Str. Real. Augt. 1843.

Wellcome Collection 18259i

On Brocktorff's lithograph, of which this watercolour is a copy, see Malta views: a catalogue of topographical prints and drawings of Malta in the Museum of the Order of St. John, London 1984, no. 77, pp. 45-46. "Str. Reale" was the street, Strada Reale, in which de Brocktorff worked