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Description: | Watercolour and ink on paper. This watercolour relates to an oil painting in the Government Art Collection titled ‘Kingroad from Portishead Point, near Bristol’ (GAC 2818) and to a watercolour in the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with the same title. Kingroad (or King’s Road), an anchorage at the mouth or the River Avon, was used by shipping bound to and from Bristol. The area was sheltered from the south-westerly winds by a small headland known as Portishead Point (or Battery Point) and had good holding ground for anchors. It was here that vessels completed the loading of their cargoes, allowed pilots to board and waited for a favourable wind. Pocock himself used the Kingroad anchorage when setting out on a number of voyages. The small boat in the foreground of this work is probably bringing ashore a pilot from a ship which has just rounded Portishead Point.
The Bristol Museum watercolour is signed and dated 1787, two years before Pocock left Bristol to work in London. The oil painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1789. | Subjects: | shore sailor (navy) flag topography seascape/coastal scene rowing boat ship cliff wave oar channel | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Nicholas Pocock | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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