The Mayflower, off Rame Head, Plymouth, this fine painting has been a long haul completed today !
63 x 40 cm (15 3/4″ x 25 3/4″) For sale, available, yours for 1,450 £.
The Mayflower of 1620 has to be one of the most influential ships in all human history.
Mayflower truly represents the best of the British and American idealism, courage and sense of adventure.
The Mayflower as in the painting here is a Galleon, English, circa 1620 or more correctly a ‘Race Galleon’, her Captain was from Harwich her most famous voyage was from Plymouth, Devon.
For sources
I built a model of The Mayflower
My own set of photographs taken of the coastline.
My Admiralty Chart of Plymouth Sound and approaches, Int 1722.
The Mayflower and Other colonial Vessels by W. A. Baker (he designed the 1957 replica gifted to the USA) ISBN 0 85177 286 2.
South England Pilot Volume IV, ISBN 085288 067 7.
Various others found on the internet.
Discover The Mayflower images of this painting on my new page ‘The Mayflower‘ https://www.frickers.co.uk/art/marine-art/merchant-sail/mayflower-off-plymouth/ , enjoy !
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