Description

A hand-colored lithograph print of the cutter yacht 'Julia' in profile during the race for the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup on 19 August 1853 in which the 'Julia' won. The race was open to yachts of all nations, and it offered an opportunity to the American sloop yacht 'Sylvie' to once again prove the superiority of the "American system" of yacht building after the schooner 'America.' Another notable foreign yacht that entered the cup was the schooner 'Aurora Borealis' from Sweden. They victory of 'Julia' reassured British yachtsman that the "enthusiasm for American models and methods was exaggerated."

See Montague Guest and William B. Boulton, The Royal Yacht Squadron: memorials of its members, with an enquiry into the history of yachting and its development in the Solent; and a complete list of members with their yachts from the foundation of the club to the present time from the official records (London: John Murray, 1902), 238-40.

Type

stamp

Location

recto, bottom left

Text

Clark Collection MIT

Type

graphite

Location

recto, bottom right

Text

12-44

Type

graphite

Location

verso

Text

R174