Nautical Art
BRIG COMMERECE
BRIG COMMERECE
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This one of a kind original pen & ink drawing of the American Brig Commerce is drawn on a heavily used 1958 French chart of the Western Sahara coast. The Commerce wrecked on the coast of Western Sahara in 1815. The crew's struggle to survive was told by the ship's captain in the book best known as "Sufferings in Africa", published in 1817. This piece is mounted and double matted in custom distressed burl frame. The chart is all in French and shows a lot of use with multiple course lines and sextant readings.
It's neat knowing that this chart was used along the remote Sahara coast.
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$790.00
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Product
Length/Depth: 2.5 in
Width: 36 in
Height: 27 in
Package
Length/Depth: 8 in
Width: 44 in
Height: 35 in
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$200.00
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Delivery and pickup restrictions may apply:
Packed, shipped and insured by UPS. Shipped in mainland US only. In person delivery or pick up at an art show is available in central and south Florida. CONTACT ME BEFORE MAKING THE FINAL PURCHASE TO DISCUSS SHIPPING. ACTUAL PACKING AND SHIPPING CHARGES MAYBE LESS.
Packed, shipped and insured by UPS. Shipped in mainland US only. In person delivery or pick up at an art show is available in central and south Florida. CONTACT ME BEFORE MAKING THE FINAL PURCHASE TO DISCUSS SHIPPING. ACTUAL PACKING AND SHIPPING CHARGES MAYBE LESS.
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No refund or returns allowed on this purchase.
Exceptions may apply. Please message Lawrence for more information.
Meet your seller
Lawrence
My interest in the sea and shipwrecks began in 1966. I was the radio operator on a US Air Force Air/Sea Rescue “Crash-boat”. Built in 1944, the high speed 63 foot wooden rescue boat gave me an uncommon opportunity to experience the sea and wonder about what lies below.
In 1968, I was on a Forward Air Control team attached to the Army in Vietnam. Maps became my sketch pad for drawing the things that caught my eye. But, it was the Vietnamese fishing boats sailing out to the South China Sea that caught my imagination.
In 1970, I joined other artists working on Jackson Square in the New Orleans French Quarter. I drew pen & ink sailing ships on nautical charts and sold them right off my work board. I learned the art of scrimshaw and worked with watercolors and oils. Only to discover that the challenge of pen & ink was my passion.
My drawings are actual ships and most were lost at sea. I find their stories in old newspapers, insurance records, Admiralty Court cases and government reports. I’ve sailed on working tall ships in the Atlantic and on the Great Lakes. As a licensed pilot I learned to feel the wind and understand weather in the three dimensional world of flying.
Each drawing begins with a rough pencil sketch. Then I use a single technical pen with a point diameter of five thousandths of an inch to create the entire drawing. Completely self-taught, I developed my own technique for building up the details, shapes, textures and shadows by layering thousands of tiny pen strokes. My one-of-a-kind drawings are done free-hand, based on my research and the image of the ship that I see in my mind.
Nautical Art
I have been combining art and history with nautical charts for 53 years to tell the stories of ships lost at sea. My one-of-a-kind pen & ink drawings of sailing ships are done free-hand on the chart of the waters where they were last seen, based on the stories I find in old newspapers, insurance records, ship's papers, life-saving service records and admiralty court cases.
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