Depicts a single merchant boat heading toward the pier from the viewpoint under a dark archway with one man smoking a pipe., Here is the peaceful port of Philadelphia, as at many other harbors of our coast, there are numbers of many idle merchant vessels of Germany, prisoners of circumstance, destined to rust at their moorings until there comes an end of the war and its paralysis of seafaring ventures. THis sketch, from a photograph, suggests the silence and desolation which human strife imposes upon innocent maritime investments., Taylor Catalogue Number: 38
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
