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The English, French, and Belgian Company's Royal Mail Packet Empress

Object summary

Title
The English, French, and Belgian Company's Royal Mail Packet Empress
Object ID
CC-F-0174
Date made
1855
Place made

United Kingdom, Greater London, London

Publisher
Ackermann & Co.
Printmaker and publisher
Day & Son Ltd.
Lithographer
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth
Draftsman
Weedon, Edwin
Object type
Lithograph
Major collection
Nautical
Named collection
Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view
No
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Description

A tinted lithograph of the 'Empress,' owned by the English-French-Belgian Company, shown passing perpendicular to two warships, which appear to be saluting the Empress's passengers (Napoleon III and Eugenie). The vessel carries the French flag in front and back. On the fore-mast in the personal standard of Napoleon III, and on the mizzen-mast is the "red ensign."

Inscriptions

Type
stamp
Location
recto, bottom left
Text
Clark Collection MIT
Type
graphite
Location
recto, bottom right
Text
9-53
Type
graphite
Location
verso, bottom right
Text
F174

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