Cutty Sark (whisky) the famous poem by Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter". The drawing of the clipper ship "Cutty Sark" on the label of the whisky bottles is a work of the Swedish artist Carl Georg August Wallin. He was a mariner painter, and this is probably his most famous ship painting. This drawing has been on the whisky bottles since 1955. The Tall Ships' Races for large sailing ships were originally known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, under the terms of sponsorship by the whisky brand. Cutty Sark was originally distributed in the United States by Buckingham Co., which was
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,