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Cutter Yacht Thistle": Designed by G.L. Watson. Built by D.W. Henderson & Co. Glasgow. Owned by Mr. James Bell Glasgow" – Historic Print

Cutter Yacht Thistle": Designed by G.L. Watson. Built by D.W. Henderson & Co. Glasgow. Owned by Mr. James Bell Glasgow", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1887. — antique lithograph
Cutter Yacht Thistle": Designed by G.L. Watson. Built by D.W. Henderson & Co. Glasgow. Owned by Mr. James Bell Glasgow", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1887.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A window into the past: Cutter Yacht Thistle": Designed by G.L. Watson. Built by D.W. Henderson & Co. Glasgow. Owned by Mr. James Bell Glasgow", preserved in this antique lithograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cutter Yacht Thistle": Designed by G.L. Watson. Built by D.W. Henderson & Co. Glasgow. Owned by Mr. James Bell Glasgow"

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The cutter *Thistle*, designed by G. L. Watson and built by D. W. Henderson & Co. of Glasgow for owner James Bell, is the subject of this 1887 hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives in New York. In 1887 the Scottish yacht crossed the Atlantic to challenge for the America's Cup, and it lost to the American defender *Volunteer*. The print reflects the public interest that transatlantic yacht racing drew in the 1880s, when American publishers regularly produced colorful portraits of famous vessels for a wide market.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1887.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
SubjectsCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1468.
Original scan1,536 × 1,252 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174288

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