A Fishing Boat Brought Ashore near Conway Castle

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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Philip de Loutherbourg was one of many artists who interpreted the scenery around Conway in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this version, the castle looms high on a hill to the left, silhouetted against the sky. Dominating the estuary of the River Conway in North Wales, it has here been portrayed as a romantic ruin. A small cart stands on a sloping path to the left, depicted as running down to the rocky shoreline. Here eight men struggle to drag their heavy boat ashore from a foaming sea, with a rakish cutter running inshore beyond. The combination of sea and land creates a coastscape picture and uses the shoreline to explore the danger of the situation and the exertion needed by the men to haul their boat to safety. The dramatic use of light invites the viewer to read other meanings into the scene.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

A Fishing Boat Brought Ashore near Conway Castle

Date

1800

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 69.9 x W 106.7 cm

Accession number

BHC2496

Work type

Painting

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