Le Clipper Americain Electric de New York a Havre, arrivant... Sandy-Hook 1854

Signed by artist in plate. The Electric is shown flying an early form of the flag of the United States of America, before the arrangement of the stars in the top left canton had been officially codified. The small vessel in the foreground is the New York pilot boat ‘P’ (see H. Parker, ‘Catalogue of the MacPherson Collection’ (unpublished).

Object Details

ID: PAH8546
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Breton, Louis Le; Lemercier
Places: Unlinked place
Vessels: Electric (1854)
Date made: 1854
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 401 x 630 mm; Mount: 605 mm x 833 mm
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