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Material: Silk
19th Century Sailor's Woolie of a British Frigate Within Floral Reserve
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Sailor's Woolie of a British Frigate Within Floral Reserve, circa 1840, a British Sailor's hand-crafted woolwork picture with a larboard side view of a ship-rigged friga...
Category
1840s English Folk Art Antique Silk Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool, Silk
19th Century Sailor's Woolie of the Four Masted Bark Loch Torridon
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Sailor's Woolie of the Four Masted Bark Loch Torridon, circa 1880, a sailor's hand-crafted woolwork picture with a starboard side view of the Four Masted Bark Rigged Cli...
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1880s English Folk Art Antique Silk Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool, Silk
Silk Embroidered Hand Painted Seascape by Thomas Willis, circa 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century silk embroidered and hand painted oil on canvas seascape by Thomas Willis (1850 - 1925), depicting a schooner-rigged racing yacht closely ha...
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1890s American Late Victorian Antique Silk Nautical Objects
Materials
Canvas, Silk
19th C. Silk Embroidered and Hand Painted Seascape by Thomas Willis, ca 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Silk Embroidered and Hand Painted Yacht Portrait by Thomas Willis (Danish-American: 1850 - 1925), circa 1890, a seascape with the schooner-rigged racing yacht CALYPSO wi...
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1890s American Folk Art Antique Silk Nautical Objects
Materials
Canvas, Silk
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