Tag: Henry Scott
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01 Marine Work, Henry Scott’s Night watch – Foochow, With Footnotes #323
Sold for US$14,025 in May 2022 Fuzhou, alternately Romanised as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area. Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter…
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01 Marine Painting – Henry Scott’s The clipper ship Light Brigade, with Footnotes, #347
Ocean Telegraph was an American clipper ship. Built in 1854 for the run between New York and San Francisco, she was later sold and renamed Light Brigade in 1863. For the next 12 years she was used predominantly to transport cargo and immigrants between London and Australia and New Zealand. She was described as “a very sharp clipper…
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Henry Scott; The Wool Clipper ”Oberon” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #269
Oberon proved herself one of the swiftest thoroughbreds in the so-called ‘Wool Fleet’. Her best-ever passage was Melbourne to London in 77 days when, after leaving Australian waters on 15th November 1874, she docked in London on 31st January 1875 having made – by a handsome margin – the fastest time of the season. Changing owners…
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Henry Scott, The clipper ship Ben Nevis 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #165
The Ben Nevis was an iron fullrigged ship built in 1868 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 218’0″×34’6″×21’0″ and 1109 GRT, 1061 NRT and 999 tons under deck. The forecastle was 36 feet long and the poop 46 feet. The Ben Nevis, built in 1868, was one of the new clippers at the time which were much…
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