MONTAGUE DAWSON
British, 1895–1973
"Off the Storm Bound Horn" - The Tea Clipper "Thermopylae"
"Cape Agulhas and Africa behind her, the clipper headed into the Atlantic. Now it was northwards all the way ..."
Titled on the reverse OFF THE STORM BOUND HORN
Oil on canvas board
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Framed: 18 x 22 inches (45.8 x 56 cm)
Provenance
Sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 20, 2006, lot 1178, illustrated
Private Collection, New England
Literature
John Williams, "Home for Christmas - The Voyage of a Tea Clipper: Original Paintings by Montague
Dawson," The Sphere, Christmas Number, London, November 9, 1956, p. 29, illustrated
$45,000