Bow View of Cutty Sark Interest_Time Captain Charles Johnson's General History

Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724 when it was first published

just as war was starting in Europe

The calendar paperweight usually shows the year of purchase

but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations

The sequences were taken with three-minute gaps using a pre-programmed shutter remote

Bow View of Cutty Sark Interest_Time Captain Charles Johnson's General HistoryA large and dramatic evocation of the bow of the 'Cutty Sark', showing a carved figurehead. In this highly stylised painting the ship is shown moving through the waves at sunset. The sails of the ship loom above the viewer's point of vision. The figurehead represents a character from Robert Burns's poem 'Tam O'Shanter', which retales the story of a Scottish farmer who was chased by the young witch. Known as Nannie, she is shown wearing a short