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The Ship Beatrice
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 17 7/16 x 27 in. (44.3 x 68.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number53.2426
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 0045, fig. 25 (Anon. academic artists)
DescriptionThree-master under full sail in the English Channel; the White Cliffs of Dover and lighthouse behind.
The artist may have been David McFarlane. The Beatrice was built by Samuel Lapham of Medford MA, in 1849, and was owned by William N. Bordman of Boston, whose house flag is shown on the mainmast. She sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on July 10, 1861 for Hong Kong and was never heard from again. (Info from M.V. Brewington, Assistant Director of the Peabody Museum, Salem)
The artist may have been David McFarlane. The Beatrice was built by Samuel Lapham of Medford MA, in 1849, and was owned by William N. Bordman of Boston, whose house flag is shown on the mainmast. She sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on July 10, 1861 for Hong Kong and was never heard from again. (Info from M.V. Brewington, Assistant Director of the Peabody Museum, Salem)
Provenance1953, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1953)