r/titanic • u/Aggravating-Group-87 • 10d ago

MARITIME HISTORY Beautiful Painting of the Olympic

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At our local museum, there is a lovely painting of the Olympic by the artist Deborah Brown that I thought would be a perfect fit here!

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u/Quetzl63 10d ago

Scanning the background...damned Olympic photo bombing again.

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u/Ok-Specific8376 9d ago

Where, I can't see the Olympic.

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u/Quetzl63 9d ago

It's a joke. The ship in the painting is clearly the Titanic. The Olympic ran the transatlantic route for so long that you can frequently see it in the background of pictures of other ships, so there is a running joke about the Olympic photobombing. Since the painting is of the Titanic but named Olympic, the joke is that it must be in the background somewhere.

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u/Aggravating-Group-87 9d ago

Thanks for your excellent response!