Steamer Drew

Object summary

Title: Steamer Drew
Object ID: CC-D-0012
Date made: 1867
Place made: United States, New York
Lithographer and publisher: Endicott & Co.
Painter: Parsons, Charles
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Portrait of the steamboat Drew, recognizable by its distinctive paddlebox. The paddlebox was painted to mimic the interior ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome, complete with painted sculptures on either end of the arc.

"Steamer Drew of the "People's Line" between New York & Albany & Athens on the Hudson River. Piers 40 &41 N. R. Foot of Canal St. NY."

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: D-12

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Parsons, Charles

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Endicott & Co.

Lithographer and publisher