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Navire ancré devant les falaises de Sainte-Hélène

A watercolor painting depicts a three-masted sailing ship anchored in the sea before the steep, dark cliffs of St. Helena at dawn, with the white buildings of Jamestown nestled in the valley and surf breaking against the rocks.

An East Indiaman at anchor below the black cliffs of St Helena at dawn in the 1790s, Jamestown white in its narrow valley, surf breaking at the cliff foot, the cliff tops rose in the first sun, watercolour with granulating washes, palette of basalt black, dawn rose and sea blue, to all four edges, no paper margin, flat and square-on. Voir plus

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