To Captain C. Bulkeley Rear Commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. This Portrait of his Schooner Yacht Peri, winner of the Gold Cups for the Years 1840 &1841

Object summary

Title: To Captain C. Bulkeley Rear Commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. This Portrait of his Schooner Yacht Peri, winner of the Gold Cups for the Years 1840 &1841
Object ID: CC-F-0150
Date made: 1843
Place made: United Kingdom, England, England, London; United Kingdom, Plymouth
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.; Fry, Edmund; Philp & Evans
Printmaker: Day & Haghe
Draftsman (after): Fry, Hubert
Lithographer: Hawkins, George
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A starboard side view of the 'Peri' in off a coast on the left background. Another yacht sails towards the 'Peri' and another vessel is in the background in the right side of the print. 'Peri' flies the White Ensign and pennant of the St. George's cross. A small rowboat is in the right foreground. A man stands at the fore while a man handles the sail and the other rows.