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Lot Essay
As noted in Harold Sniffen's Antonio Jacobsen - The Checklist, Paintings and Sketches by Antonio N.G. Jacobsen, 1850-1921 (pp. 70-71), the screw steamship City of Macon was built by John Roach & Son of Chester, Pennsylvania. It was owned by Ocean S.S. Co. and based in Savannah, Georgia. Jacobsen painted and sketched three versions of this vessel between 1878 and 1888.