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To the Chairman and Directors of the General Steam Navigation Company. This Print of their Splendid Iron Steam Ship the Rainbow.

Object summary

Title
To the Chairman and Directors of the General Steam Navigation Company. This Print of their Splendid Iron Steam Ship the Rainbow.
Object ID
CC-F-0139
Place made

United Kingdom, England, England, London; United Kingdom, Merseyside, Liverpool, Liverpool

Publisher
Ackermann & Co.
Lacey, Henry
Printmaker
Day & Haghe
Lithographer
Hawkins, George
Painter (after)
Walters, Samuel
Object type
Lithograph
Major collection
Nautical
Named collection
Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view
No
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Description

A view of the Paddle steamer for passenger and cargo service that was built for the General Steam Navigation Company of London for service between London and Ramsgate. After being employed in London and Antwerp trade for some time, the 'Rainbow,' which was the fastest vessel of her day, ran for many years as a cargo steamer between Havre and London until 1869. In the print, she sails off Antwerp and the Cathedral of Our Lady is in the background. In the foreground is a rowboat filled with men and women carrying cargo.

Inscriptions

Type
stamp
Location
recto, bottom left
Text
Clark Collection MIT
Type
graphite
Location
recto, bottom left
Text
1838
Type
graphite
Location
recto, bottom right
Text
9-17
Type
graphite
Location
verso, bottom center
Text
F139

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