Shipwreck

A small blue-white porcelain pouring vessel, with spout but missing the its neck, presumably Chinese, of a type also referred to as 'kendi'. Likely 17th century, making it quite a ...

Although the painting is principally an abstract work of art, within the composition that suggests a storm at sea, can be seen the prow of a ship, shown as a dark silhouette. The p...

At the Paris Salon of 1819, Géricault caused a sensation with his monumental work The Raft of Medusa. The painting featured the dead, the dying and the survivors of a French shipwr...

Homer travelled to England in 1881 and, after spending a few weeks in London, settled in the village of Cullercoats near Tynemouth on the craggy North Sea coast, remaining there un...