File:A Dutch Whaler and Other Vessels in the Ice RMG BHC1016.jpg
Original file (1,280 × 908 pixels, file size: 228 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Summary[edit]
Adam Silo: A Dutch Whaler and Other Vessels in the Ice
  |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
A Dutch Whaler and Other Vessels in the Ice  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: A Dutch Whaler and Other Vessels in the Ice Several types of Dutch shipping are shown trapped in the ice. In the foreground to the right a fluyt sits in the ice, stern view to port. The name of the ship is implied on the stern. A sail is shown drying and the detail of the rigging has been carefully observed. At its bow is a small craft also stuck in the ice. Another ship rests beyond with a richly decorated stern. On the left is a kaag, or cargo vessel with the put leeboard visible. Other shipping is positioned in the harbour beyond. A jetty runs behind the ships on the right and land is shown on the far left in the form of a town indicated by several tall buildings and a windmill. The effects of a cold winter form part of the purpose of the picture. With the ships out of action the artist has shown alternative ways in which the inhabitants were able to move about on the ice. In the central distance two figures sit in a sleigh pulled by a horse and in the foreground goods are being conveyed by a man hauling a sleigh. All the people depicted wear skates and the artist has shown them in some detail, variously occupied. Two women stand by the fluyt with one pointing towards the hull. A workman wearing an apron looks in the direction of the man who has fallen over on the ice. Two men on the far right hold sticks and appear to be playing a form of ice hockey. In the foreground a large hole has been cut in the ice, and the artist has included the carefully cut blocks of ice which have been removed. This stratified, ordered and detailed reveals the careful observation of this Dutch marine artist. He initially worked as a master shipbuilder and sea captain but by about 1694 he had learnt how to paint, training under Abraham Storck. Silo was also an etcher, mezzotint engraver, draughtsman, instrument maker, modeller, goldsmith, shipbuilder and writer. In 1697 he was in Amsterdam giving Peter the Great instruction in the drawing of ships. Peter owned several of his paintings and he reputedly used them to examine cadets at the Naval Academy in Russia. The artist has signed the picture 'Adam Silo' on a piece of driftwood in the foreground on the left. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1757 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Frame: 567 mm x 721 mm x 50 mm;Painting: 440 mm x 618 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
BHC1016 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Signed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12508 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1927-20 id number: BHC1016 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing[edit]
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 23:48, 17 September 2017 | | 1,280 × 908 (228 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1757), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12508 #903 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 4 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
