Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
Carl Georg August Wallin Shipping Company "Nordstjernan AB" ordered some 30 paintings by Wallin. Carl Wallin painted some 700 ship paintings, most of them named with the names of the ships, usually full-rigged ship, but he has also painted marine compositions and coastal landscapes. Many of the great shipping companies of that time commissioned paintings of their ships by Carl Wallin. But even foreign shipping companies, seafarers associations and federations as well as private buyers commissioned paintings. Carl Wallin’s drawing of the "Cutty Sark" (the tea clipper built in Scotland), which since 1955, is the label on the whiskey bottles of Cutty Sark whisky,