Constance and Brilliant

Object summary

Title: Constance and Brilliant
Object ID: CC-T-0129
Date made: 1850
Place made: Unknown
Draftsman (after): Clay, J. S.
Photo process printmaker: unknown
Object type: Print
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A photo-processed print after a drawing by J. S. Clay supposedly depicting the schooner yachts Constance and Brilliant owned by Lord Conyngham and Mr. Ackers, respectively. The illustration was also featured in Hunt's Yachting Magazine with the schooner yacht foregrounding the dressed, square-rigged ship more accurately identified as the 'Constance.'

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: T-129

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: Constance Marquis of Conyngham, owner, 1850, and Brilliant, Holand Ackers, owner.