MONTAGUE DAWSON
British, 1895–1973
The Clipper Ship “South Australian”
Signed MONTAGUE DAWSON
Oil on canvas
42 x 28 inches (107 x 71 cm)
Framed: 50½ x 36½ inches (128 x 93 cm)
Painted circa 1950-52, this work depicts the clipper ship "South Australian", built in 1868 and weighing 1,078 tons.
Provenance
The Purnell Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland
Private Collection, Chicago, 1978 (acquired from the above, to the present)
Literature
cf. L.G.G. Ramsey, Montague Dawson, R.S.M.A, F.R.S.A., Leigh-on-Sea, 1970, p. 49, no. 240, for listing of another
painting by Dawson of the "South Australian", published as a collotype by Frost & Reed
The Magazine Antiques, December 1977, p. 1072, illustrated
P.O.R.