Artist:

Frantz  Search this

Medium:

Brush and watercolor, varnish on textured off-white wove paper

Dimensions:

17.4 x 25.5 cm (6 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Type:

seascapes

Drawing

Object Name:

Drawing

Made in:

USA

Date:

mid-19th–early 20th century

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Horizontal sheet depicting a large boat with two striped masts near or beached on the shoreline. It is possibly a clipper ship with its third mast broken. Its stern faces the viewer and on the rocky beach smaller boats are beached and figures seem to load or unload cargo to the larger boart. In the distance at right is the triangular gray sail of another boat, and an open body of water beyond.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. William Greenough

Accession Number:

1943-51-325

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45a0091a3-e9d5-432e-94a2-b189e953b916

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1943-51-325