Royal Yacht Osborne

Object summary

Title: Royal Yacht Osborne
Object ID: CC-F-0135
Date made: 1877
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Lithographer and publisher: Day, John B.
Draftsman and lithographer: Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A colored lithograph of the paddle steamer 'Osborne,' Royal Yacht of the British Royal Navy. She carries a White Ensign of the Royal Navy and a Royal Standard atop her main mast. She leaves a trail of black smoke from her smokestacks on deck. Another three-masted steamship is in the far distance in the left background. Manuscript notes in Arthur H. Clark's handwriting about the paddle steamer's measurements and location made are visible on the bottom left margin of the print.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom left
Text: Built at Pembroke 1870. 1800 Tons. Length l. p. 250 ft. oa 284 ft. Breadth 36 ft 9 in. Draft 16 ft 2 in. [...] Speed 16.629 knots on [...]

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 12-62

Type: graphite
Location: recto, next to publication detail
Text: 1877

Type: stamp
Location: recto, lower left
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom center
Text: F135