Ocean Crossing for Amundance in North America, XI 1609

71 x 201 cm or 28 x 79 inches Oil on Primed Belgium Linen by Russell & Chapple 2018

Livelihood of sailing expeditions came with maps and the knowledge of areas to fish. Eventually a European mass exodus towards North America for a more plentiful land, river and sea would unfold. Until that time fisherman as sailors went to the New World regularly. Bringing home our National staple of Atlantic Cod - a fish alongside the American potato, today's fish & chips. Especially welcome during many a famine in the Elizabethan and Jacobean times. Here today.