Title:
[Clipper ship "R. B. Forbes" leaving for California]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0319 (enclosure)--A
Format:
drawing on paper: pencil and ink
18.6 x 24.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Three-masted sailing vessel tied up at wharf (bow left); riggings described in pen throughout image; wharf crowded with barrels,
packages, and boxes; men in foreground and working on ship.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (within image, on middle mast flag): R.B. Forbes; (within image, LL): For California. Enclosure:
The Old Print Shop (New York) advertisement for wood engravings of ships issued in 1850s and 1860s listing Clipper Ship "R.B.
Forbes" traveling between Boston and Sandwich Islands, 1851.
Subjects:
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Marines (Visual works)