"Norman Court" Taking a Pilot off the Lizard, From the original picture painted & engraved by T. G. Dutton

Object summary

Title: "Norman Court" Taking a Pilot off the Lizard, From the original picture painted & engraved by T. G. Dutton
Object ID: CC-R-0145
Date made: 1870
Place made: United Kingdom
Painter (after): Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A tinted lithograph of the starboard side of the tea clipper 'Norman Court' off The Lizard, a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, or off the Ness picking up a pilot. She had a very successful and profitable career. Her owner, the Baring Bros., commissioned Dutton the original painting at the cost of £100. In the far background on the left of the picture is a lighthouse and small buildings. Men row towards a boat in the foreground.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: verso, top left
Text: "Norman Court" Tacking a Pilot off the Lizard, From the original picture painted & engraved by T. G. Dutton

Type: graphite
Location: verso right
Text: R145

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: 10-68

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Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth

Painter (after)