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This narrative depicts a collier brig lying aground on a beach in shallow water, at low tide. Coal is being 'whipped' out of her hold in baskets, using the large iron pulley suspended from a jeer or whip footed on her deck, and tipped down a chute over her side into a cart waiting in the water below. A man mounted on a cart-horse in the central foreground carries a metal bucket of coal in his right hand and a long horse-whip over his shoulder (possibly a visual pun on the process being shown), from the ship towards the cart on shore to the right, which is waiting its turn to be loaded. The horses all have colourful ruff-like padding of some sort behind their working collars, in blue, yellow or red. The ridden horse also has a red cockade on the headband of its bridle.
Title
A Beached Collier Unloading into Carts
Date
c.1790
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 31.4 x W 42.6 cm
Accession number
BHC2361
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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