Large Framed San Francisco: The “Vicar of Bray” in Yerba Buena Cove During the Gold Rush in 1849 by John Stobart. Hand signed and numbered color lithograph. In frame measures 34"x45"x1.75". Weight approx 27 pds. Included in San Francisco’s armada of gold seekers were many foreign ships. The Vicar of Bray, shown here, was an English ship built in 1841 by Robert hardy. The ship was named after a sixteenth-century English vicar whose religious ‘convictions’ during the Reformation and post-Reformation shifted with preference of each occupant of the British throne, and thus he both survived and prospered while many of his more resolute brethren were either burned at the stake or hanged. The Vicar of Bray exhibited the ability of her namesake to survive; after escaping the maelstrom of the gold Rush, she resumed her role as a trader, and for the next thirty years transported cargo between the British Isles and South America. In 1880 she was hulked in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where, incredibly, she remains to this day, the only surviving ship of the hundreds the thronged San Francisco Bay in 1849. John Stobart (born 1929) is a British maritime artist best known for his paintings of American harbour scenes during the Golden Age of Sail. Professionally framed and matted at a Hilton Head SC Gallery. PROVENANCE: The Estate of Sumner Pingree Jr, Brays Island Plantation, SC. ***Pickup only or Shipping on this item offered through On the Go Transport 843-360-7472, Outward Bound 413-854-3676 or A.J. Williams (SC-local) 843-442-0462 or the UPS store at 843-202-0141. Please contact them or your own choice of shipper directly.**

good, frame chipped