Inca at Lamlash, Isle of Arran - Limited Edition Giclée Print. Image size discount 20" x 20" (51 x 51cm).
Description:
A strictly Limited Edition of 125 numbered and signed high-quality Giclée prints of my original painting.
At 20" x 20" (51 x 51cm), the image is printed on an acid and lignin-free paper (Hahnemuhle Photorag Ultramooth) with a 1" (2.5cm) border. Our friends at Deadly Digital of Glasgow, our superb printers, only use Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks; generally regarded as the colour and black and white reproduction benchmark.
Carefully and securely packaged a sturdy cardboard tube, the artwork is unframed and will be delivered free of charge within the UK. (Note: the image of the framed painting is for illustration only.)
Behind the image:
Puffer Inca of 1938, waiting or the tide after delivering coal to Lamlash, Isle of Arran. By David Dyer.
The Puffer Inca was built by J and J Hay and Sons at Kirkintilloch and launched into the Forth and Clyde canal in 1938 as part of their own fleet. She was 66.4 feet long with a beam of 17.55 feet and was powered by a two-cylinder steam compound engine.
She is seen here unloading coal at the old stone pier at Lamlash of the Isle discount of Arran. By performing an indispensable role in the life and times of many communities, especially the more remote ones up and down the coastline and islands, the Clyde puffer must rank as the most fondly remembered of all the small coastal vessels that plied the waters of the west coast of Scotland.
She, and her identical 1941-built sister Boer, were the two puffers used in the making of The Maggie, the classic Ealing Studios film of 1954. Another reason why the puffers are remembered with special affection undoubtedly stems from the fertile imagination of one man, Neil Munro, creator of the “Para Handy” tales. Due to his desire to be remembered more for his historical novels like John Splendid and The New Road, he wrote the Para Handy, and other humorous short stories to be serialised in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News from 1905, under the pseudonym of Hugh Foulis.
So exactly did he capture the essence of the West of Scotland humour in his stories about Para Handy and his puffer Vital Spark that the books have never been out of print since the first collected stories were released in book form in 1906. The stories also inspired The Maggie, but also four series of programmes on BBC TV. Inca was scrapped in 1965.