The brig Antigua of Irvine, entering the port of Marseilles, 11th November 1845

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Honore Pellegrin (1793-1869)
The brig Antigua of Irvine, entering the port of Marseilles, 11^th November 1845
signed, inscribed and dated 'Brig Antigua of Irvine Wm. Buchanan entering the Port of Marseilles 11^th Nov.br 1845' (centre) and 'H. Pellegrin Marseilles 1845' (lower right)
pen and black ink and watercolour
16¼ x 22½ in. (41.3 x 67.2 cm.)

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拍品专文

Noted as a snow rather than a true brig, Antigua was built for T. Fisher at Bideford, Devon in 1829. Registered at 149 tons gross (139 net), the Scottish town of Irvine remained her home port for most of her working life despite the fact that she usually traded in and out of Liverpool. Skippered by her owner for a long period, in the early 1840s she was running across the Atlantic to Antigua although by the time Captain Buchanan took her over late in 1845, she had changed her regular point of embarkation to the Clyde and was alternating her trips to the West Indies with runs to Marseilles and other Mediterranean ports; she disappears from record after 1850.