Sold for:
$4,200
$4,200
Raffael Corsini (Turkish, active Smyrna, 1830-1880) Bark "Smyrniate" Capt. G. Prior, Entering Smyrna bay 1859. Signed l.r., titled below. Gouache on artist board, 20 x 28 in., in a contemporary molded giltwood frame. Condition: Very good. Provenance: A prominent Cincinnati, Ohio, collector. Note: The bark Smyrniate , the second-fastest vessel in the clipper ship era, was owned by powerful Smyrna-born Boston merchant Marquis Niccolo Reggio (1810-1867) in the time preceding the Civil War.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-28
