Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
POSSIBLY WILLIAM GAY YORKE (1817-1892)
Lot 192 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR

POSSIBLY WILLIAM GAY YORKE (1817-1892)

Clipper Ship: Queen of Clippers

Closed22 January 2021

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USD 10,000

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POSSIBLY WILLIAM GAY YORKE (1817-1892)
Clipper Ship: Queen of Clippers
oil on canvas
30 x 44 ¾ in.

The Shephard Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, December 1985

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The Queen of Clippers was built in East Boston by Robert E. Johnson. She launched on March 26th, 1853. That same year she sailed from New York to San Francisco (Octavius Howe, American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858 (New York, 1986), p. 469).