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Thistle": cutter yacht Glasgow Scotland" – Vintage Print

Thistle": cutter yacht Glasgow Scotland", New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1887. — historic print
Thistle": cutter yacht Glasgow Scotland", New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1887.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Thistle": cutter yacht Glasgow Scotland"

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The Thistle was a cutter yacht built on the Clyde at Glasgow, Scotland, and this print presents it as a ship of that Scottish yard. Its name and build point to the Clyde's long reputation for fine yacht construction in the 1880s. In 1887 the Thistle sailed as a British challenger for the America's Cup, the most watched yacht race of the day, which made it a subject of wide public interest in the United States. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for inexpensive chromolithographs of American life, issued this color print to satisfy that appetite for pictures of famous vessels.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1887.
MediumPGA - Currier & Ives--Thistle: cutter yacht... (D size) [P&P]
GenreCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6493
Subjects1 print : chromolithograph.
Original scan1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175619

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