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Elbridge Kingsley — The Flying Dutchman

Elbridge Kingsley

The Flying Dutchman

1887

Maritime legend takes visual form in Kingsley's wood engraving of the ghostly ship doomed to sail the seas forever, executed with the crisp precision and dramatic contrasts possible only in this demanding medium.

Medium
wood engraving

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Elbridge Kingsley, The Flying Dutchman, 1887

Maritime legend takes visual form in Kingsley's wood engraving of the ghostly ship doomed to sail the seas forever, executed with the crisp precision and dramatic contrasts possible only in this demanding medium.

Medium
wood engraving
Year
1887
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Dark, Monochrome, Dramatic, American, Classical, Wood Engraving, Late 19th Century, Maritime, Narrative, Mythological

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