Discovery
Description:
Anglo-American School, 19th Century
Steamship in a Northwest Gale on a Moonlit Night. The vessel, scene, and possibly the date and artist's name inscribed indistinctly below. Oil on canvas, 18 x 23 in., in a later mitered wood frame. Condition: Relined, replaced stretcher, pronounced but stable craquelure.
Note: The letters "PMSSCo." painted on the paddlewheel of the vessel stand for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company of Great Britain. The company's steamships delivered mail between Panama City and San Francisco.
Estimate $400-600
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