File:Gulf of Mexico from the 'Birkdale' RMG BHC0076.jpg
Original file (1,280 × 907 pixels, file size: 170 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Summary edit
| Author |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Gulf of Mexico from the 'Birkdale' An impressionistic sketch showing the Gulf of Mexico from the 'Birkdale'. The calm sea is loosely painted and forms a visual contrast to the dark sky. A bank of cloud sits horizontally across the painting, and the sun can be seen weakly through the clouds. The artist has concentrated on the cloud formation over the sea which towers in the distance, right of center, to create visual effect and is highlighted with tinges of pink. Everett joined the barque, 'Birkdale', and sailed from Bristol to Sabine Pass, Texas, April to June 1920. It was his first journey after World War I. The 'Birkdale' was due to take sulphur from Texas to the Cape, but when she arrived in Texas the ship was re-chartered to Australia and so Everett reluctantly left her and came home by steamer. The 'Birkdale', built in 1892, was the last barque to fly the red ensign and spent nearly all her working life in the Chilean nitrate trade. For a short time after World War I she switched to taking sulphur from Texas to the Cape. The 'Birkdale' went back to the nitrate trade and was wrecked on the Chilean coast after catching fire in 1927. The painting is inscribed 'Birkdale Gulf of Mexico' verso. |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 252 x 355 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Acq. No. 2048 crossed out, 1248 written below. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11579 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Identifier | dossier number: item; record photograph id number: BHC0076 |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing edit
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 04:10, 14 September 2017 | | 1,280 × 907 (170 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1920), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11579 #254 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file:
