Brig Yacht Wanderer

Object summary

Title: Brig Yacht Wanderer
Object ID: CC-F-0157
Date made: 1849
Place made: United Kingdom, England, England, London; United Kingdom, Plymouth
Draftsman and lithographer: Brierly, Sir Oswald Walter
Printmaker: Day & Haghe
Publisher: Edmund Fry & Son; Fry, Edmund
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A ship portrait of the 'Wanderer' seen from the starboard broadside. The 'Wanderer,' owned by the whaling entrepreneur Benjamin Boyd, was a lavishly fitted out yacht that frequently sailed on Sydney Harbor and Twofold Bay in the 1840s. Boyd established settlements and pastoral stations between Eden and Sydney. The yacht's expensive interiors and opulence made it a popular attraction with fashionable society in Sydney.