Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America’s Cup, 1903

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£18500

Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America s Cup, 1903. This mixed media picture is oil on canvas with silk and velvet fabric embroidered with silk thread. It shows the 1903 America s Cup yacht race outside New York Harbour between Reliance and Shamrock III . The spectator boat Edward J. Bergwind occupies the centre of the picture. The scene is meticulously detailed with stitched silk rigging, a velvet hull overlaid with silk to depict the spray of the waves and a velvet smokestack with a tuft of silk streaming behind as smoke. Signed and dated ‘T. Willis, N.Y., 1904’

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Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America’s Cup, 1903

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