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The "Flying Cloud" Lying off Whampoa
Edward Meyer Kern (American, 1823–1863)
1854
Medium/Technique
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.3 x 29.4 cm (9 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number59.904
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 452
DescriptionThree masted ship, starboard side, with an American flag flying off its stern. Small single massed sailboat before it, and a barrel floating in the water in the foreground.
InscriptionsLower left, in pen and ink: Sketch of Am. Clipper / "Flying Cloud" / Laying off Whampoa. / June / 54
Lower center: Kern delt.
Lower center: Kern delt.
ProvenanceGiven by the artist to Captain William Brenton Boggs, the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition's purser; bought from Bogg's granddaughter by Maxim Karolik. Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1959