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Description: | A maritime scene showing two strips of land jutting out into a river basin, at right angles to one-another, with one extending from the left edge of the composition and the second from the right lower corner. Across the horizon is a line of low land, which descends slightly to the right where a cottage stands beside a mill. In the foreground, a group of boats are moored to the right bank of land, three of them with sails set; a steam boat crowded with figures either positions itself to move alongside the boats or casts off from a wherry (a kind of barge). Behind the left bank of land, the square sail of another wherry can be seen.
Gilt, moulded plaster, eighteenth century frame.
Technique: oil on panel
medium: oil paint
The Steam Packet by John Crome, John B. Formerly attributed to Crome, 1813 - 1817 (circa), (1905.5). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.305 | Go to resource |
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