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The great ocean yacht race - between the Henrietta, Fleetwing & Vesta / Parsons ; sketched by Charles Parsons from the Yacht Club steamer "River Queen".
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Print shows three double-masted schooners, "Fleetwing, 212 Tons, Vesta, 201 Tons, [and] Henrietta, 205 Tons", undersail, headed left to right.
Caption: The "good bye" to the yacht club steamer "River Queen". 4 miles east of Sandy Hook, lightship, Decr. 11th 1866. The Henrietta arrived off the Needles, Isle of Wight, England at 5:45, P.M. Decr. 25th 1866; winning the race, and making the run in 13 days 22 hours, mean time. The Fleetwing arrived 8 hours afterwards and the Vesta 1 1/2 hours after the Fleetwing.
Signed on stone "Parsons" in lower left.
Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1867 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N.Y.
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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