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Setting Nets on the Coast of North Wales. An interpretation of a sea and skyscape at sunset. The flat sea washes up towards a beach in the foreground of the painting. The artist has positioned two small fishing boats on the right to create a sense of rece
1874
National Maritime Museum

Short-handed. A large painting showing a scene on the deck of a ship in stormy weather. Full of incident and human drama, it shows the tilting deck of a coastal schooner battered by the high seas and in danger of sinking. All hands are at the pumps and th
1874
National Maritime Museum

The ship Barossa. A portrait of the clipper packet ‘Barossa’ in 1874. Her first voyage for Devitt and Moore’s Australian Line of Clipper Packets was from Gravesend to Adelaide, Australia in October 1873. So this portrait records her soon
1874
National Maritime Museum

Trouville, awaiting the tide. This impressionistic work shows fishing boats drawn up on the shore at Trouville. They are decorated with the French flag to mark the celebrations in France, for the storming of the Bastille in 1789 at the start of the French
1874
National Maritime Museum