Italian School, 19th Century

The Brig Lion off Naples, 1838

细节
Italian School, 19th Century
The Brig Lion off Naples, 1838
inscribed 'Lion 1838'
bodycolour
18 x 22½in. (46 x 57.5cm.) (3)

拍品专文

Probably the Lion, built at Yarmouth in 1829 and owned by G. Palmer of that port. Several brigs named Lion are listed in Lloyd's Registers of the period but only this Yarmouth vessel is noted as a Mediterranean trader.