Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN J. MCMULLEN
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)

Montezuma

Details
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)
Montezuma
signed and dated Antonio Jacobsen 1917 lower right and inscribed Black Ball Liner, Montezuma lower left and inscribed New York Liverpool on the reverse
oil on panel
16 x 23¼ in.
Literature
Harold S. Sniffen, Antonio Jacobsen-The Check List, (New York, 1984), line 16, pp. 206-207.

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Lot Essay

The Black Ball Line, one of America's most famous packet ship company, started sending transatlantic sailing ships on schedule about 1817 between New York and Liverpool. Robert G. Albion, the line's historian and author of Square Riggers on Schedule states: "It constituted a landmark in Maritime history...the beginning of the practical application of the 'line' to ocean navigation...with several vessels under coorditnated private management in regular succession on specificied dates."
The line lasted until 1878 a little after Antonio Jacobsen began working as a marine artist. The line's fleet of ships during the sixty-one years of operation numbered some forty ships, which included the Montezuma. The ship sailed with the line for eleven years after which she was sold as an emigrant ship. The Montezuma wrecked on Island Beach, New Jersey on 21 December 1856.

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