Framed watercolour drawing entitled 'Too Late'. An apparently empty, small, clinker-built boat in the left foreground, afloat on a clear, blue moderate sea, is being approached by a larger boat of whaler form, from a late-19th- or early-20th-century merchant sailing ship: this is seen in port-bow view in the right distance. The deserted boat has an oar erected as a mast, flying a piece of ragged canvas or cloth to attract attention, and pieces of blue clothing lying visibly inside it and over the gunwale. The approaching boat is rowed by four seamen in neat blue working dress, with another standing ready in the bow with a boathook, and an officer also standing at the tiller. The title implies that there is either no-one in the empty boat - presumably originally holding one or more survivors from a lost ship - or that anyone that those coming to investigate will find lying invisible in it is already dead. The drawing is signed by the artist, lower right, but his identity remains to be confirmed since not apparently John Nash RA (1893-1977). It was presented to the Museum by Mr George Grigs in 1968 with an oil painting of the steamship 'Straits of Belle Isle' (BHC3646). [PvdM 2/15]