Study of Sea and Sky with a Distant Sailing Ship

This composition of this sketch is extremely simplified, but it conveys a slightly ominous atmosphere - a green sea beneath a grey sky against which the sails of the ship on the horizon are highlighted.

Object Details

ID: PAD0455
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wyllie, William Lionel
Date made: Probably late 1860-70s
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 110 mm x 165 mm