"The Rising Wind: on deck aboard the Ethiopian"

1. Fine Hand-Numbered Limited Edition on Paper

Image Size: 36 x 24 inches (91.5 x 61 cm) / Paper size: 40 x 28 (70 x 102 cm)

Edition of 1880

Each print on paper is hand-numbered and supplied with its own numbered Certificate signed by the Master Printer, numbered to match the print.

2. Print on Canvas

Image size: 24 x 16 inches (61 x 41 cm)

The unframed canvas has a 2 inch (5 cm) white margin all round

This powerful, atmospheric picture of men emerging into the lashing wind from the relative comfort of their mess below decks, probably to shorten sail in view of the ominous weather conditions, almost certainly depicts a storm scene on board the Ethiopian.

Ethiopian was built for George Thompson's 'White Star Line' of Australian clippers by Walter Hood at Aberdeen in 1864. Registered at 839 tons gross (and net), she measured 195½ feet in length with a 34 foot beam and proved unexpectedly fast when she ran out to Melbourne in only 68 days on her maiden voyage. Normally employed to carry coal from Australia to China before loading tea for the journey home, it was said that she was surprisingly beautiful for a collier although it has to be said that her regular run from Melbourne to Shanghai was rather more exotic than the more mundane routes in and around the British Isles. After a successful twenty-two year career under White Star colours, including a miraculous escape from being sunk when completely dismasted in a tremendous gale off Sydney in 1868, she was sold to Norwegian owners in 1886 who operated her until 1894 when she was abandoned in a sinking condition in the North Atlantic.