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CHINESE SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)
Clipper Ship Black Prince
inscribed ‘BLACK PRINCE EDWIN CHASE GOMD ENTR HONGKONG 12TH MARCH 1863’ (lower edge)
oil on canvas
2912 x 44 in. (75 x 111.8 cm.)
Literature
J. Farrell, et al., The Marine Collection at India House, New York, 1935, pp. 5-6, no. 12.
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Launched in 1856 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, the Black Prince serviced trade between the East Coast and San Francisco and San Francisco to China. The Black Prince was presumed lost at sea in 1865.

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