Tag: Cutty Sark
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John Allcot, Cutty Sark 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #285
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.…
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14 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #23
Frederick Tudgay, John Tudgay Battle of Heligoland, c. 1864 Oil on canvas 35-1/2 x 58-3/4 in. (90.1 x 149.2 cm.) Private Collection The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second War of Schleswig between the navy of Denmark and the navy of Austria. The latter’s ally, Prussia, sent…
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