Surprise" - built at East Boston in 1850 by Samuel Hall" – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Surprise" - built at East Boston in 1850 by Samuel Hall". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Surprise" - built at East Boston in 1850 by Samuel Hall"
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A print of the clipper ship *Surprise*, built in 1850 at East Boston by the shipbuilder Samuel Hall, whose yard produced some of the fastest vessels of its day. The image is a photographic reproduction of a painting, made around 1924 and copyrighted by A. Clive Edwards and the Foster brothers, so it shows the ship as an artist imagined her decades after her launch. Clippers like *Surprise* were built for speed in the tea, China and California trades of the 1850s, when owners raced to deliver cargo first. Notice the tall, raked masts and the wide spread of canvas that defined the type.
| Created / published | c1924. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930.Paintings Reproductions 1920-1930. |
| Notes | G71200 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographic reproduction of painting(?). Copyright by A. Clive Edwards and Foster brothers. |
| Subjects | Sailing ships--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,500 × 2,600 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191214 |
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