拍品 626
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John Christian Schetky (1778-1874)
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John Christian Schetky (1778-1874)

The Island Queen off Cowes

细节
John Christian Schetky (1778-1874)
The Island Queen off Cowes
oil on canvas
21 x 34in. (53.4 x 86.4cm.)
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拍品专文

The topsail schooner Island Queen was built at Cowes, Isle of Wight for Way & Co. in 1840. Registered at 254 tons, she measured 93 feet in length with a 22 foot beam and was coppered soon after completion. Her first master was Captain G. Balls and he seems to have commanded her throughout her short career coasting between Cowes and London before disappearing from record in 1849. A schooner of this name during this same period was operating in the Far East opium trade and Basil Lubbock suggests that the two vessels are one and the same ("The Opium Clippers", 1933 refers). The evidence for this assumption is circumstantial however and further research is needed to confirm it.