Yacht Puritan" of Boston" – Vintage Print
(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 antique lithograph of Yacht Puritan" of Boston". Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yacht Puritan" of Boston"
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Few American yachts of the 1880s drew as much public attention as the *Puritan*, a Boston-owned sloop that defended the America's Cup in 1885 against the British challenger *Genesta*. This chromolithograph, published by Currier & Ives around 1885 and signed by the artist Charles R. Parsons, turns that rivalry into a lively marine scene of sails and racing water. Currier & Ives built much of its reputation on such topical prints, which gave Americans colorful, affordable views of the events and vessels they were reading about in the newspapers. The print also shows the late-nineteenth-century enthusiasm for yacht racing as a sport of wealthy New England families.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Artist: Charles R. Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7366 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,194 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175586 |
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