This fine sailors woodwork shows a three masted steam-sail ship along the English coast. This British merchant ship is configured for maximum speed, with sails aloft and steam billowing from her funnel. Behind white chalk cliffs sits a patchwork of farm fields and houses, evoking English pastoral life which depended on merchant vessels such as this one to carry their goods across the sea.
Unusually tight, crisp detail and fine workmanship is present, including three dimensional stitching on the sails and bead detail for the cannons and at the top of the masts. A fine period rosewood frame completes this excellent example of the sailor art form.
