Title

Ship CATHERINE

Date1812

Mediumwatercolor on paper

Dimensions14 1/2 × 19 3/4 in. (36.8 × 50.2 cm)

Object number1944.18.1

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionThis starboard view of the Ship CATHERINE displays her on the starboard tack, under full sail. She is flying a pendant at the mainmast, a jack at the foremast, and the ensign off the mizzen peak. Her hull is black with a yellow sheer strip, a black and white striped jib boom, and a female figurehead with gilded decorative trail and stern boards. A ladder is depicted off the port stern, with figures visible on deck. A shore and a smaller vessel are visible off the port bow. This ship was built for Seth Russell & Company in 1810. The watercolor is an early depiction of a New Bedford-built ship and it is a rare of documentary evidence relating to the firm of Seth Russell & Co.

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