Iron Yacht Mystery Winning Royal Thames Yacht Club Match, June 1842

Object summary

Title: Iron Yacht Mystery Winning Royal Thames Yacht Club Match, June 1842
Object ID: CC-F-0195
Date made: 1842
Place made: United Kingdom
Engraver: Rosenberg, Charles
Object type: Aquatint
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Starboard-side view of the first iron yacht ever built, 'Mystery,' winning the 4 June 1842 Royal Thames Yacht Club race. The match distance was from buoys moored off then Greenwich Hospital, down to Coal House Point, below Gravesend, and back again. She was owned by Lord Alfred Paget.

Other yachts are in the left and right background. In the right middleground is a buoy with the flag of the yacht club and an auxiliary paddle steamship filled with passengers viewing the race.

Inscriptions

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

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 11-54

Type: graphite
Location: verso, top left
Text: "Mystery" Lord Alfred Paget Royal Thames Yacht Club June 4, 1842

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: F195

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