American School, Mid-19th Century
Sale 1313 - The Donald F. Moylan, M.D. Collection of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts, Part II
Mar 14, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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$1,397
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Lot Description
American School, Mid-19th Century
The Ship of War Columbia
watercolor on paper
faintly dated 6th mo 12th 1862, lower right, with inscription Home of My Youth, lower left
inscribed The Columbia, first-rate ship / of War mounting 104 carriage Guns, the / right noble Jacob McCracken Lord High / Admiral of Ponunkechunk, owner, upper left, with faint initials and date, S. D. 1798
16 3/4 x 21 inches.
The ship flies three 13-star American flags, featuring unusual blue stripes and a 3-2-3-2-3 star arrangement, first seen in Matthias Chrisitan Sprengel's Almanac of 1784. Such flags were later used as naval ensigns during the late nineteenth century when employing flags with accurate star counts rendered them too small for visibility at sea. Also depicted are a Union flag without the Cross of St. Andrew, used until 1801, and an early nineteenth-century Irish flag.
watercolor on paper
faintly dated 6th mo 12th 1862, lower right, with inscription Home of My Youth, lower left
inscribed The Columbia, first-rate ship / of War mounting 104 carriage Guns, the / right noble Jacob McCracken Lord High / Admiral of Ponunkechunk, owner, upper left, with faint initials and date, S. D. 1798
16 3/4 x 21 inches.
The ship flies three 13-star American flags, featuring unusual blue stripes and a 3-2-3-2-3 star arrangement, first seen in Matthias Chrisitan Sprengel's Almanac of 1784. Such flags were later used as naval ensigns during the late nineteenth century when employing flags with accurate star counts rendered them too small for visibility at sea. Also depicted are a Union flag without the Cross of St. Andrew, used until 1801, and an early nineteenth-century Irish flag.
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