Engraving on paper Ca
1929
Unframed 15 1/2″ L x 13 1/2″ H
Framed 22 3/4″ x 20 1/2″
Signed LR
Numbered 92/100
Presented is an engraving of the famous American
Clipper ship Flying Cloud as she surges forward in rolling seas towards an unknown port. She is heeling to
leeward under full sails on a starboard beam reach. Many gulls are soaring off her starboard quarter. The engraving is
signed in pencil in the lower right, and marked and numbered in the upper left.
THE ARTIST: Burnell Poole,
(1884-1933), spent years at sea in the North Atlantic with the U.S. Navy during WW One . Thirty years before our
navy had combat artists, Poole recorded the warships in action. The U.S. Navy has less than two dozen works of art recording
this period, and Poole’s contributions number five. They were commissioned by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company,
and donated to the Naval Historical Foundation between 1928 and 1929 to commemorate the Navy’s participation in the
war. These paintings, owned by the Navy Historical Foundation, are on exhibit in Washington, DC. Later, he turned to
portraying the sea, by mastering the technique of engraving and dry-point. He earned a reputation as being the greatest American
marine artists in those techniques. In 1922, he was being compared favorably to Englishman, Arthur Briscoe,
1873-1943. Poole also did engravings of many famous sailing yachts and ships, and a portfolio of twenty of these works
was recently for sale for $12,500.00 for the lot.
The engraving has been recently framed and is
available with a companion engraving of the English four masted Clipper Ship Bangalore which was the near final development
of the sailing cargo vessel. That engraving is dated March, 1929. Click here https://landandseacollection.com/id265.html