Small trading Vessels beached and drying sails at low tide by Jersey pier
Small trading Vessels beached and drying sails at low tide by Jersey pier
Small trading Vessels beached and drying sails at low tide by Jersey pierInscribed upper centre: Jersey Pier -Pen and grey ink and watercolour on two sheets of laid paper joined28.4 by 19.4 cm., 11 by 7 ¾ in.In her biography of her father's life, Emily recollected that whilst the family was living in Southampton, between 1757 and 1773, Gore spent time sailing around the coast of Britain, visiting the Channel Islands and the northern French coast on several occasions and the present work would have been executed during one of these visits. This drawing depicts cutter-rigged sloops with carved work at the stem-head and seem to be of carvel (smooth-hull) plank-on-frame construction, not clinker. There is a drawing in Weimar museum which is inscribed 'Snail cutter taken in camera Jersey 1773'.){kind=link}
Charles Gore (1729-1807)
Small trading Vessels beached and drying sails at low tide by Jersey pier
Inscribed upper centre: Jersey Pier -
Pen and grey ink and watercolour on two sheets of laid paper joined
28.4 by 19.4 cm., 11 by 7 ¾ in.
In her biography of her father's life, Emily recollected that whilst the family was living in Southampton, between 1757 and 1773, Gore spent time sailing around the coast of Britain, visiting the Channel Islands and the northern French coast on several occasions and the present work would have been executed during one of these visits. This drawing depicts cutter-rigged sloops with carved work at the stem-head and seem to be of carvel (smooth-hull) plank-on-frame construction, not clinker. There is a drawing in Weimar museum which is inscribed 'Snail cutter taken in camera Jersey 1773'.