Sail boat 

Fritz Bamberger sketched this sailboat with graphite on paper sometime in the mid-19th century. Bamberger was a landscape painter, and his seascapes often reflect an interest in the sublime aspects of nature, a quality admired by the Romantic movement then gaining traction across Europe. It's interesting that the image is a quick sketch. This makes me wonder if it was made "en plein air," a practice that was becoming more common as artists sought to capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. The rise of outdoor painting was facilitated by new technologies such as portable easels and pre-mixed paints in tubes, products of an industrialising Europe that changed the social conditions of art production. To understand Bamberger's vision more fully, one might research the artistic conventions of his time. We might also ask what role patronage played in his career.