Artwork for Carronader

[Cannoneer]

Here you go, Carronader; this type of stubby, and homely naval ordnance even had its uses in peacetime, in this case as a feeder for sheep.


Artist: Sir Henry Edwin Landseer. Title: Peace

[carronader]

Landseer was a Royalist,moralist,lackey,romantic in the process of goin insane Boomj,.........and............. English!    so blatantly obvious an anti-war picture..............do you like this picture Boomj?

[KABAR2]

I will add his proportions on the Carronaid are off a tad..... look at the clunky oversized trunnion on it; it just looks wrong.
As far as his political vent, there were dreamers in every age, I am guessing he was fairly well off, so he could afford to dream - a luxury
most artists of the time didn't have. especially in the print medium one of the cheaper forms of art at the time.

[Cannoneer]

Carronader,

No, I do not like that picture; while I think that trying to attain, and maintain peace are noble endeavours, this British allegorical piece is a little too syrupy for my tastes.
When Landseer was constrained to painting just animals, with no people in the composition, he was more than capable of achieving fine results.
Well, that's enough of my art criticism.

Monarch of the Glen
 


KABAR2, you're right, that under barrel lug on the carronade looks beefy enough to handle the recoil of a HUNDRED POUNDER carronade.