Engraving on paper                                                   Ca 1929

Picture size 15 3/4" L x 13 1/2" H                            Framed size 24 1/4" x 21 3/4"                          

Signed       LR                                                              Numbered 62/100

 

 

Presented is a recently framed engraving of an unnamed Clipper Ship running near dead down wind. She is heeling gently to leeward with all her studding sails flying. There are gulls are soaring

off her port bow. The engraving is signed in pencil in the lower right, and marked and numbered

in the upper left. The photograph of the framed engraving above is taken though glass, and what may look like a stain, is really only the photographer's shadow.

 

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. 

62/100 and artist's mark      Close-up of sails         Title of engraving   Signature and 1948 date LR

 

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