LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour on paper

Size Notes:

(ii) 32.0 x 48.0 cm, (iii) 30.0 x 47.0 cm, (iv) 33.0 x 50.0 cm, (v) 31.0 x 46.0 cm

Markings:

(i) A 90 ton schooner built at St Petersburg in 8153. She was wrecked at Raratonga in 1869; (ii) A barque built in Massachusetts of 478 tons in 1853. The Alice Cameron left Newcastle (NSW) for Manila in 1874 and was lost at sea; (iii) A three metre barque built in Boston in 1856. She was 596 tons and was wrecked in 1866 on Paumoto Island; (iv) A 224 ton barque built in Nova Scotia in 1857. She brought Nova Scotian immigrants to New Zealand; (v) A 341 ton barque built in Maine, USA in 1856 and sold to W. Sullivan of Sydney in 1868. She was wrecked in 1872

Provenance:

Henderson & Macfarlane Limited, New Zealand, c1862 ; Burns, Philp & Co, Limited, Sydney, 1938; Lawsons, The Burns Philp Collection, Sydney, 25 March 1998, (i) lot 718, (ii) lot 717 (illus.), (iii) lot 716 (illus.), (iv) lot 714, (v) lot 715 ; Private collection, Sydney