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December 14, 2011

800px-Jack_Spurling_-_ARIEL_&_TAEPING,_China_Tea_Clippers_Race

Ariel and Taiping at sea during the great Tea Race of 1860. Oil painting by Jack Spurling, 1926. Image: Wikicommons.



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