Freeport Spring Art & Antiques Auction
Watercolor on paper, 19 x 23 inches, sight. Pencil inscribed “At the Port of Leghorn (Livorno), Waiting for Pilot, 1847.” Note the quality of the work on the sternboard. The Sea Eagle, a bark out of Boston is shown approaching the port of Livorno, Italy. (Livarno was called “Leghorn” by the English.) The Sea Eagle was later used in the slave trade and ended its life in California as a transport for gold rush prospectors. Professionally framed in a grain painted frame by Perry Hopf.
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