Title:
Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"
Creator/Contributor:
Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[not before 1853]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0332--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
25.4 x 35.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Port-side view of three-masted ship, with American flying from central mast, engulfed in flames. Lifeboats and barrels on
water.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, below title): The "Golden Light" sailed from Boston for
San Francisco, February 12th, 1853... On the 22nd, during a thunder storm she was struck by lightening and set on fire
Subjects:
Fires;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color;
Marines (Visual works)