Untitled [Four Masted Sailing Ship]

Catalogue

Seascape. Four masted sailing ship showing port stern quarter moored at wharf. Foreground shows rippled reflections of the ship and masts across the water. Faint indication of cranes at shoreline to the left. Background hills and sky.

Date

c. 1920 – 1929

Object type

painting

Medium and materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

240x310mm

Place Made

New Zealand

Inscriptions

LL Flora Scales

Current Collection

Scales Corporation Limited

Current Location

Christchurch, New Zealand

Keywords

landscape format ship boat seascape oil painting wharf cranes landscape New Zealand early work hills

Correspondence from Danielle Carter, Archives, and Bill Laxon, Library Manager, the New Zealand Maritime Museum Library, Auckland, 27.09.2019,

“A four-masted fore-and-aft rigged schooner. ‘Fore-and-aft’ refers to sails that run parallel to the length of the boat, as opposed to square rigged sails, which are perpendicular to the keel of the boat.”

Exhibitions

Flora Scales

Acknowledgments

Photos by John Collie