Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas

Object summary

Title: Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas
Object ID: CC-T-0077
Date made: 1852
Place made: United States, New York, New York
Publisher: Currier, Nathaniel
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A port-broadside view of the three-masted, extreme clipper ship 'Sovereign of the Seas.' The figurehead is a half man, half fish figure blowing a conch shell. She flies a US flag at her stern and a blue, white, and red (faded) burgee.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: verso, left
Text: R20A [crossed out]

Type: graphite
Location: verso, left
Text: T77

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas / Built by Donald McKay, East Boston, 1852 / Pub. by N. Currier, NY, 1852

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: R-20 A (Formerly T-77) [crossed out]

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: T77 5-12

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