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HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH "WRECK OF THE U.S.M. STEAM SHIP
HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH "WRECK OF THE U.S.M. STEAM SHIP
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HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH "WRECK OF THE U.S.M. STEAM SHIP 'ARCTIC'"
"Off Cape Race Wednesday September 27th, 1854. On her homeward voyage from Liverpool, during a dense fog, she came in collision with the French iron propeller 'Vesta,' and so badly injured that in about 5 hours she sunk stern foremost, by which terrible calamity nearly 300 persons are supposed to have perished.". After James E. Buttersworth (England/America, 1817-1894) and signed within the image. Marked in lower margin "After a Sketch by James Smith of Jackson, Miss. A Passenger on Board the Arctic". Drawn on stone by Charles Parsons. Published by N. Currier, New York, circa 1854.
20" x 27.75" sight. Framed 25" x 31.5".
Literature:
Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonné (Detroit: Gale Research, 1983), No. 7346.
Carl C. Cutler's A descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Collection at India House (At the Sign of the Gosden Head, New York: 1935), #254, p. 63.
Condition
Good, the paper has toned and there are some small spots of foxing, a scratch in the upper left sky at the edge, and a small loss just aft of the funnel.
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HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH "WRECK OF THE U.S.M. STEAM SHIP

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