Studies of a torpedo-boat destroyer and sailing vessels, shells exploding at sea during target practice, male and female figures and a profile portrait of a young maners cap RMG PV0005, William Lionel Wyllie, circa 1900

Studies of a torpedo-boat destroyer and sailing vessels, shells exploding at sea during target practice, male and female figures and a profile portrait of a young maners cap the steam vessel is a turtle-back torpedo-boat destroyer of around 1900. That under sail is a coastal ketch-rigged spritsail barge running under full sail, including topsail. On the right men in a boat are setting or adjusting an artillery target of a sheet of canvas or other fabric suspended on a float between two uprights. The shell splash, lower left also includes such a target, now partly damaged. The small full-length figure studies, one of which shows a lady with a wheeled chair or pram are inverted in relation to the others. Date: circa 1900. Dimensions: 355 mm x 255 mm. Collection: Fine art.