Scudding before a heavy westerly gale off the Cape

Experience Augustus Earle’s ‘Scudding before a heavy westerly gale.’ A dramatic watercolor capturing turbulent seas & a ship's struggle – realism meets romanticism.

Augustus Earle

Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a pioneering British travel artist known for his vivid watercolors & lithographs documenting 19thC colonization, landscapes, portraits, and Aboriginal life in Australia, New Zealand & beyond. A significant historical re