Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

FROM A DRAWING BY
CLARA KLINGHOFFER

[Leicester Galleries)

on May 2nd last in recognition of his
services in these parts covering a period of
over 20 years. It was designed and
executed by Mr. Omar Ramsden, of
London, who wishes to acknowledge con-
siderable assistance with regard to the
lines of the hull and rigging to researches
made by Mr. Sydney Houghton, and con-
sists of a hand-wrought repousse and
chiselled silver-gilt ship—The Ship of Good
Fortune—with beaten silver sails, poised
upon a lifting wave of bronze, symbolising
Shakespeare’s “ Tide in the affairs of men,
etc.” A base of oak bears an inscription in
Latin. The leading idea of this work is
one of homage to the memory of the

intrepid master mariners and explorers
who discovered and opened out the un-
known quarters of the earth from the time
of Christopher Columbus. It is strictly
constructed on the lines of the late
fifteenth-century “ Caraval,” such as the
“ Santa Maria ” of Christopher Columbus
—that is to say, a vessel of about 100 tons
burthen, 90 odd feet long, 20 feet beam,
and carrying a crew of about 52 souls.
The present model is some 2 feet long
over all, 21 inches high, and has a beam
of 4 inches in between the bulwarks.
The panels between the framework of
the bulwarks are filled with heraldic
badges and the coats-of-arms of the various

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