Collection Highlights
Freedom to the Slaves
Date:
ca. 1865
Object Number:
PR.052.58
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Man Looking at an Advertisement for the Clipper Ship "Hibernia"
Object Number:
1956.90
Date:
1830-1859
Medium:
Oil on board
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. ( 24.4 x 34.3 cm )
mat: 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. ( 36.2 x 48.9 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "E. Price"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in gray oil: "E. Price"; sign inscribed: "NEW YORK / AND / BOSTON / DIRECT / THE / CLIPPERSHIP / HIBERNIA / A.No 1. / O. ROORKE / MASTER"
Description:
Genre
Gallery Label:
A would-be emigrant at the dockside gazes at a placard inscribed: "NEW YORK AND BOSTON DIRECT. The CLIPPERSHIP HIBERNIA. A.No 1. O.ROORKE, MASTER." Two clipper ships are in the background. The Society also owns a ship portrait in oil of the Hibernia that is attributed to Samuel Walters.
Credit Line:
Naval History Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
