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The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax , lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
At the Russian evening sale of Sotheby's London division held for the first time in history on 26 November 2007 [13] [14] The Wrath Of The Seas (Lot No. 12) was sold for £513,300, [15] which is equivalent to over $1,000,000 (net of the auction and other fees). Currently, the painting is kept in a private collection.
James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art and is considered among the foremost ship portraitists in the United States of the nineteenth century. [1] His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement.
Ship of Fools (painting) Shipping by a Breakwater (J. M. W. Turner) Ships in Harbour, Evening; The Shipwreck (Turner) Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast; French frigate Sibylle (1791) The Sirens and Ulysses; The Slave Ship; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; Sommarnöje; The Stages of Life; Steamboats in the Port of Rouen; Storm at Sea ...
This decision to salvage and remove the shipwreck artifacts by Odyssey Marine Exploration, was further questioned and complicated by the location of the wreckage. "When a ship has been discovered, the country where the ship was registered can point to something called sovereign immunity (in addition to claims of ownership).
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Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible gale on the morning of September 30, 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
The word encaustic originates from Ancient Greek: ἐγκαυστικός, which means "burning in", from ἐν en, "in" and καίειν kaiein, "to burn", [3] and this element of heat is necessary for a painting to be called encaustic. Encaustice or Encaustike (ἐγκαυστική) was the art of painting by burning in the colours. [4]