Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large The composition rises from small

The composition rises from small figures along the foreground shore to the clustered village buildings and ultimately to the soaring abbey silhouette above

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and his work has been featured in galleries across the United States

he similarly expresses the passage of time and invokes longing and the pathos of things forgotten but from a uniquely magnified perspective

Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large The composition rises from smallOriginal watercolor signed by artist. The merchant ship Jacob Bell was in the West Indies, bound from Foochow, China, to New York, with a valuable cargo when she was captured by CSS Florida on 12 February 1863. She was burned the next day.