'Forty days out from Melbourne': The American clipper Empress of the Seas

細節

Henry Scott (1911-2005)
'Forty days out from Melbourne': The American clipper Empress of the Seas
signed 'Henry Scott.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)

來源

with MacConnal-Mason & Son, Ltd., London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 April 1998, lot 233.

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

Empress of the Seas was built by Donald McKay at East Boston and launched on 14^th January 1853. Registered at 2,197 tons (American), she measured 240 feet in length with a 43 foot beam, and carried a magnificent female figurehead holding a globe and the sceptre of the seas. Sold to William Wilson & Son of Baltimore for $125,000 whilst still on the stocks, she began her career on the California run making her maiden passage out in 121 days. Transferred off the San Francisco route in 1858, she eventually began sailings from England to Australia and in 1861 made the run from Liverpool to Melbourne in a remarkably fast 66½ days. On 19^th December the same year, she caught fire at Port Phillip, Australia, and became a total loss.

'Forty days out from Melbourne': The American clipper Empress of the Seas

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