Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer and publisher
Title:
Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"
Date:
[not before 1853]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
25.4 x 35.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0332--B
Subject:
- Fires
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Lithographs, color
- Marines (Visual works)
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Port-side view of three-masted ship, with American flying from central mast, engulfed in flames. Lifeboats and barrels on water.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, below title): The "Golden Light" sailed from Boston for San Francisco, February 12th, 1853... On the 22nd, during a thunder storm she was struck by lightening and set on fire
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf8f59p5h r

Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"