Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2482Location: BostonDate / Time: November 08, 2009 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of the American Packet Ship GARRICK of the Dramatic Line. Unsigned, vessel identified on bow. Oil on canvas, 28 x 42 in., in a period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, scattered retouch.
Note: The Garrick was built at New York in 1836 under Edward Knight Collins, and was one of three vessels of the "Dramatic Line" of American packet ships to Liverpool. She weighed just over 895 tons.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
Numerous small spots of retouch over canvas some to craquelure and some to stretcher edges.