Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Butterworth, J. E. (active ca. 1853-ca. 1854), artist
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
The wreck of the steamship "San Francisco": disabled on her voyage from New York to San Francisco [California], Dec[ember] 24th, 1853 and in a sinking condition
Date:
c1854
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
57.5 x 80.3 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0347--D
Subject:
- Events
- Vessels
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Wreck of sidewheel steamship engulfed in water in center; passengers escaping rowboats; "Antarctic" ship and "Three Bells" ship near by take on survivors.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Paint. by F.E. Butterwoth; (LC, above title): Entered... 1854 by N. Currier... N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): New York, published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street; (LR): Lith. by N. Currier.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf5t1nb6g q

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