The BRITANNIA steamship leaving Boston, U.S. – Historic Reproduction
(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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The BRITANNIA steamship leaving Boston, U.S. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The BRITANNIA steamship leaving Boston, U.S.
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The Britannia, a paddle steamer that Samuel Cunard's company put into service on the North Atlantic in 1840, is shown leaving Boston in this wood engraving. Cunard's ships carried mail and passengers between Britain and North America, and Boston was one of the line's American ports, so the steamer was a familiar sight in the harbor. The print appeared in The Illustrated London News in October 1847, a weekly that relied on engravings like this to show readers distant places and new technology. The caption details are unverified, so the scene is best read as a general view of Boston harbor and its shipping at the time.
| Created / published | 1847 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1847 October 23, p. 272. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Boston--1847; Mass.--Boston--harbor...; Ships--BRITANNIA; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142984 |
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