Description

Summary: ship portrait; schooner Sylph of Poole at Leghorn, 1855 (David Pidding master); cream mount; framed/glazed

Summary: watercolour on paper; white gouache highlights; 'Schooner Sylph of Poole David Pidding Master 1855'; depicting schooner with black hull, yellow line and figurehead sailing into Leghorn Harbour; signed 'By Lewis Renault Leghorn 1857; dims : height 46.4cm; width 61.5cm

Content summary: two-masted topsail schooner entering Leghorn port under full sail; courtesy flag from for mast, five signal flags from main mast; ed ensign from gaff; two small boats on deck; steamship off stern (very similar to those in portraits of 'Venus' and the 'Volunteer')