Hand-coloured lithograph print depicting the passenger steamers Isaac Newton and Francis Skiddy. Inscribed: "A Night on the Hudson. 'Through at Daylight' ". Francis Skiddy is shown on the right of the picture, racing with the Isaac Newton in the Pallisades area of the Hudson River. She was designed for the day run between New York and Albany and was one of the largest and fastest steamers built for the river. After some years she was converted into a night boat. She struck a rock and was wrecked in 1864. She was raised and her engines put into a new steamer, Dean Richmond. (H. Parker and F. C. Bowen, 'Mail & Passenger Steamships of the xixth Century, p. 116).