Throw the Sea to the Sky
Throw the Sea to the Sky
$4,200.00
36x48x3 Acrylic
These tall ship paintings are dedicated to the women of Portsmouth between the 17th and 18th century. There is not much known about them, just bits from written information as marriage licenses and baptismal records. We do know that this woman Gerrish was sailing with her husband. It wasn’t uncommon for the captain to bring his family with to sea.
What to me was the most fantastical story that I had read was that women with their children sometimes they were on the ship with strap themselves to the mass below when there was a huge storm so that they wouldn’t get swept off to the ocean. This really keeps my life in perspective when I think of some of the stores that seafaring women went through.
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