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Samuel Read, Shipping
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Trewithen
- Title(s)
- Shipping
- Medium and support
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 18 cm, Overall width: 26 cm
- Artist
- Samuel Read (c.1816-1883)
- Catalogue Number
- TN85
Description
The present painting, evidently the pendant to TN84, also depicts two wave-tossed fishing boats and, at a distance to the right, two British naval frigates, which again probably function as patrol vessels. The scene may represent an earlier or later episode in the narrative.