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LongitudeMedium: Acrylic paints and colored pencils on board Size: 14x21.5 inch art on 22x30 inch board Year 2000 An 18th century clock maker named Jon Harrison (Gambon) begins what is to become a forty-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould (Irons) discovers Harrison's neglected chronometers and sets out to restore them. A high seas saga of passion, determination, and discovery presented by A&E and based on the novel by Dava Sobel. Signed and dated bottom right corner outside border "drew 2000"
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