$2,520
Italian School, 19th Century BRIG WHIG BOSTON Francis H. Rogers ENTERING & LEAVING the PORT of PALERM Unsigned, titled below. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 19 5/8 x 26 in., in a later molded wood frame, the backing paper bears the Goodspeed's Bookshop framer's label. Condition: Foxing through central area and sparsely so in the upper sky, minor paint loss l.l. water, paper slightly rippled. Provenance: Family descent of the original owner of the painting, a small paper label affixed to the backing paper is inscribed "The Whig belonged to my father's (Joseph Morril) grandfather"; another typewritten note affixed to the backing paper reads "...This picture belonged to my grandmother and was her ship. The best picture I have. FMO." Literature: This painting is illustrated in The Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-19078, Volume 1 , by John Robinson and George Francis Dow, Marine Research Society, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 301; a similar painting by the same unknown artist is illustrated in The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum , by Marion Vernon Brewington, Dorothy E. R. Brewington, (The Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts), p. 377, plate 1468.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27
