A watercolor painting depicting three ships in a harbor. The closest has a blue colored hull. A small strip of land establishes a horizon line in the center of the right side. The artist's signature, date and the title are handwritten in pencil in the lower left corner. The wood frame is painted gold with ornate carvings on the outer edge and plain gold along the inner edge.
watercolors (paintings)
watercolor (paint)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Painting
"The E.W. Noyes Co. / Pictures / and / Frames / 13 Bromfield St. / Boston" (Label on reverse)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P165
FA095
Shaw, Ernest W (Painter)
E.W. Noyes Co. (Framer)
Boston, Massachusetts
16 6/16 x 20 11/16 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.588
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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