Philip John Ouless - An in-bound Jersey steamer for St. Helier passing the Corbière Rocks and lighthouse
<p>An in-bound Jersey steamer for St. Helier passing the Corbière Rocks and lighthouse
signed with monogram and dated 1873 (lower right)
</p><p>oil on canvas, monochrome
</p><p>48.5 x 87cm (19 1/8 x 34 1/4in).
</p><p>Footnotes
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The distinctive funnel arrangement on the steamer, having both of her two funnels abaft her paddle-boxes, identifies her as either P.S. Aquila or her sister P.S. Cygnus, both of which were built in 1854 and came into service on the Jersey route in 1857.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19958541" class="extiw" title="d:Q19958541"><span title="British painter and watercolorist (1817-1885)">Philip John Ouless</span></a>
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1873<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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