The Cutter Yacht "Maria," 170 Tons

Object summary

Title: The Cutter Yacht "Maria," 170 Tons
Object ID: CC-E-0025
Date made: 1853
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Publisher: Day & Son Ltd.
Artist (after): Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth
Lithographer: Robins, Thomas Sewell
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Side view of a cutter yacht owned by Commodore J.C. Stevens of the New York Yacht Club. The Maria was built around the same year the NYYC was founded. It is said that she once logged 17 nautical miles per hour in smooth waters, and was beaten in a race only once by the Swedish schooner Coquette.

This print is plate 7 from Fores's Marine Sketches.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto
Text: 1851

Type: stamp
Location: recto
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: recto bottom left corner
Text: R199

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Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth

Artist (after)

Robins, Thomas Sewell

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Day & Son Ltd.

Publisher