Steamboat Henry Smith

Details

JAMES BARD (1815-1897)
Steamboat Henry Smith
Signed J. Bard, Painter,, lower right
watercolor on cardboard
18x29in.

Provenance

Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 1927
Sotheby's, New York, 22 October 1995, lot 47

Literature

A.J. Peluso, Jr., J.J. Bard Picture Painters (New York, 1977), p. 116.

Lot Essay

Originally built in 1854 under the name "John L. Lockwood", this steamboat changed names numerous times using the "Henry Smith" and then later "Victor". The ship was used mainly in New York waters. For another image of the Henry Smith, see Peluso, p. 105.

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