Shipsmiths, Finnestoun

Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953 · 1900

Interior of a long, low building. Down the left side a series of furnaces, at which eight smiths are at work. In the foreground on the left a man stoops to raise a chain from the ground with both hands. On the right two ladders are erected, one of which slants downwards to the right, the other to the left. In the foreground is an anvil. The chain continued to the left edge of the plate by the addition of three links. The original signature remains legible ; above it is a second signature.