Plate 1. The Early Racers: Maria, America, Una, Ray

Object summary

Title: Plate 1. The Early Racers: Maria, America, Una, Ray
Object ID: CC-R-0199
Date made: 1884
Place made: United States, New York, New York
Publisher: Charles Scribner & Sons
Lithographer: Armstrong & Co.
Painter (after): Cozzens, Frederick S.
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Plate 1 from 'American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races' after Frederic Schiller Cozzens. The chromolithograph depicts some of the earliest, successful American yacht racers. The yachts line up in the middle ground and a red buoy is in the right foreground. Sailors are busy at work on the decks of all the yachts. The portfolio of prints was originally accompanied by a book by U.S. Navy Lieutenant James Douglas Jerrold Kelley that described each plate and provided historical context.

Part of the publication information that was printed on a small label and pasted on the verso is still visible on the verso of this print.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 6-50

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: E-25 [crossed out]

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: R199 6/89

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: R-199 [crossed out]

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: the Early Racers -- Maria, America, Una, Ray. American Yachts. Plate I.