Adrian Thompson - Young America
Adrian’s Thompsons marine art has sold in the top London auction houses including Bonhams and multiple pieces have sold for many £1000's.
A three-masted wooden extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by William H. Webb, New York, for George B. Daniels, New York, at a total cost of $ 140.000. Dimensions 243'×43'2"×26'9" and tonnage: 1961; 1439 tons (old measurement) / 1380 (new measurement).
Originally rigged with three skysails and was later re-rigged with double top-sails. The sail-plan in William Webb's Plans of Wooden Vessels, 1870, also shows a main moonsail.
There is a builder's half model of the ship in the Smithsonian Institute [USNM 160135] and the plans have been published in the already mentioned Plans of Wooden Vessels.
1853 April 30
Launched at the shipyard of W.H. Webb, New York, for George B. Daniels, New York. Her first master was Captain David S. Babcock late of the clipper Swordfish.
Original Oil On Canvas
19 x 30
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