Auction Date:2009 Mar 11 @ 07:00 (UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT)
Location:128 American Road, Morris Plains, New Jersey, 07950, United States
AN OIL ON CANVAS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP "GOLDEN EAGLE", BY CHARLES ROSNER
Signed l.r.c. Charles Rosner, notated verso "Clipper Ship `Golden Eagle` 1121 tons built 1852". Depicting the ship under full sail, flying an American flag with the stars in a circle on the canton. Charles Rosner (German-American, 1894-1975) developed a fascination for sailing vessels while a child on holiday in various German seaports. He also served aboard them, accumulating five Cape Horn passages during his ocean career. After WW I he emigrated to Canada and thence to America, where his affinity for the sea propelled him into a commitment as a full-time marine painter of historic sailing vessels and other sea-faring subjects. The U.S. ship Golden Eagle was an extreme clipper, built at Medford, Massachusetts by Hayden and Cudworth, registered in New Bedford, and launched on November 9, 1852. She weighed 1121 tons, had a length of 192 feet, a beam of 36 feet, a 22-foot depth of hold, a gilded eagle on the wing figurehead, old-style single topsails and 3 skysails, for a spread of 7,000 yards of canvas in a suit of sails. She was built to the order of William Lincoln and Co., Boston, under the superintendence of Captain Samuel A. Fabens, who served as her master until 1858. The Boston Daily Atlas for November 23, 1852 contains a detailed description of the Golden Eagle by Duncan McLean, that newspaper`s marine reporter. She made a total of eight voyages from the East Coast around the Horn to San Francisco, the first out of Boston, the others out of New York. On the homeward leg of the last of these voyages, she sailed from San Francisco for Howland`s Island, where she loaded a cargo of guano, and from which she sailed about November 20, 1862, bound for Cork, for orders. On February 21, 1863 she was attacked and burned by the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. Her owners, E. M. Robinson, of New Bedford, and John A. McGaw, of New York, claimed, and were allowed, insurance in the amount of $56,000 for the vessel, $30,000 for freight, and $27,522 for cargo. Depictions of this ship can be found at the Peabody Essex Museum, the American Antiquarian Society and in assorted galleries. 24"h x 30"w Unlined. Several small "dings" to surface, resulting in depressions to canvas, a light scrape to paint across the topsails, scattered tiny pinholes in the surface where the canvas is pulling apart along the lines of the heavy craquelure, small areas of flaking paint along canvas edges, in corners, in the sails and in the sky.
Auction Location:
128 American Road, Morris Plains, New Jersey, 07950, United States
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| From (Incl.) | To (Excl.) | Premium |
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