Plate 14. Moonlight on Nantucket Shoals: Ibis, Tidal Wave, Estelle, sagitta, Aeolus.

Object summary

Title: Plate 14. Moonlight on Nantucket Shoals: Ibis, Tidal Wave, Estelle, sagitta, Aeolus.
Object ID: CC-T-0083
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 14 from 'American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races' after Frederic Schiller Cozzens. The chromolithograph depicts a view of five yachts at sea in the moonlight. 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.

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

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 6-51

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: Moonlight on Nantucket Shoals Ibis, Tidal Wave, Estelle, Sagitta, AEolus. American Yachts. Plate XIV

Type: graphite
Location: verso, top right
Text: T83