celebration of sail

This beautiful book features paintings by one of the foremost marine painters working today. Over more than thirty years Roy Cross has created a volume of work celebrating the peak of the development of the naval and merchant sailing vessel, for the late Eighteenth to the late Nineteenth Centuries. This book is the first review of Roy’s marine paintings to be published. Dozens of his best paintings are showcased in full colour and accompanied by detailed captions giving historical informations on each of the vessels featured.