Can anyone identify the type of boat in this painting?

[carolinehurley]

I am thinking it maybe a 3 fixed batten sail Lorcha/Junk but the cutaway stern confuses me! I believe it was painted early 1900. Any info would be helpful. Many thanks

 

[racerone]

Looks like something from the Nile river

 

[carolinehurley]

Thank you, that's a start for my research, much appreciated.

 

[flashback]

I don't see a cutaway stern, my best guess is a junk. The stern is painted and is deceiving.

 

[carolinehurley]

I don't see a cutaway stern, my best guess is a junk. The stern is painted and is deceiving.

Thank you, obviously artistic licence was taken!

 

[Scott Danforth]

Trying to identify a fictional boat in a painting where the author may or may not have taken artistic license is going to be difficult. Sort of like trying to identify the muse of Picasso from his paintings....

 

[carolinehurley]

Thank you for your amusing sarcastic wit, made me smile but didn't help with the identification of a antique mythical boat design. Season greetings.

 

[alldodge]

The eye leans me to Egyptian or Polynesian but that's about it for me

 

[carolinehurley]

Thank you. I wonder if the flags/pennants mean anything?

 

[Scott Danforth]

since there are burgees on the mytical 3rd mast and one on the 2nd mast. look up the mytical burgees, compare to real burgees and that my get you to a country. however they could also be mythical as well.

if the burgees are real. then that detail of the mytical image is real and the boat may have real origins. if the burgees are not real, then much of the detail must be suspect. That will determine if its Alice or the Mad Hatter down the particular rabbit hole.

it appears to be an artist rendition of a 3-masted junk conversion, however since the bow is square, the stern is not, I assume there is more than a bit of artistic licensing on the vessel.

Happy hunting and seasons greetings.

 

[carolinehurley]

Once again thank you Mr Grumpy for your comments. As I am a landlubber I have no idea what burgees are but I will lookup in the Lewis Carroll or Hobbit dictionaries. If I decipher the clues you will be the first to know. Regards.

 

[dwco5051]

Looks like something from the Nile river

Some historians claim the first cultures to paint an eye on the prow were from Egypt and India but there are examples all over the world. Note the modern boat in Vietnam pictured here.

 

[dwco5051]

It is obvious that the artist was not a sailor since the flags and pennants on the hoist are going the opposite direction of what they would be when the boat was underway with the wind behind them.

 

[bigblocksarefun]

Once again thank you Mr Grumpy for your comments. As I am a landlubber I have no idea what burgees are but I will lookup in the Lewis Carroll or Hobbit dictionaries. If I decipher the clues you will be the first to know. Regards.

 

[southkogs]

That boat would be a junk. That's the type of rig for the sail, and a lorcha would have a different hull (it's a junk rig too). The "poopdeck" (not sure what they call them on a junk) is overhanging the rudder on that ship. That's not uncommon.