Across the panorama of Bowling Along, a ketch (a double masted yacht with a larger forward mast than aft) slices through a glistening sea, white wake and spray marking its swift progress.  Jib down an...

Built in Maine by George Thomas and launched in November 1853, Red Jacket remains one of the fastest ships ever built.  She was named for the Seneca chief Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, or "he that keeps th...

In the mid-nineteenth century, clippers were the fastest ships at sea, traversing the trade routes between England and the Far East as well as between New York and San Francisco around Cape Horn, aptl...

Compositions featuring a shipboard perspective are rare within Montague Dawson's prolific body of work, and A Night at Sea offers dynamic insight into this distinctive yet fascinating genre of his car...

Through the mid-nineteenth century, clipper ships’ reputation for speed was so prevalent in popular culture that bets were made as to which vessels could transport cargos of tea in the fastest time fr...

While Dawson is celebrated for his paintings of majestic clipper ships on open seas, another important aspect of his oeuvre is his scenes of yacht racing.  Across the large, panoramic scale of Gay Wea...

Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973) Seascape with Clipper ship signed 'MONTAGUE DAWSON.' (lower left) watercolor on paper 20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm.) Executed _circa _1930....

Waimate was an iron full-rigged ship built in 1874 for the British Eastern Shipping Company, Liverpool, originally named Hindostan. In 1875 she was sold to the New Zealand Shipping Company and made tw...