- American School, Early 19th Century
Two Framed Images of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Historical
Buildings. Unsigned, the buildings identified in penciled inscriptions
u.r. Watercolor and ink on paper, one depicting the “First Friends
Academy/County and Elm,” the other showing “...the Gilbert Russell
house/County at the head of Walnut [Street] 1820,” 10 x 13 3/4 in.
(sight), in matching later molded wood frames. Condition: Both with
foxing, toning, and center creases, not examined out of frames.
Note: The Friends Academy of New Bedford, Massachusetts, first
located on County Street in New Bedford, was founded in 1810 by
members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from New
Bedford, Dartmouth, and the surrounding area. The Gilbert Russell
house was built for a prominent citizen of New Bedford, Gilbert Russell
(1760-1829), son of Joseph Russell.
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Miscellaneous Group of Shipping Papers, Merchant Receipts,
Passage Ticket, and More, early to mid-19th century, four shipping
papers listing goods for assorted vessels leaving Boston for other ports,
seven receipts for payment of vessel-related accoutrements, three
receipts for piloting or towing vessels, two Nantasket Beach Steamboat
Company timetable listings, an 1841 California passage ticket from
Boston to San Francisco, a certificate allowing a vessel to fish for cod, a
c. 1806 looking glass manufacturer’s label for Cermenati & Bernarda at
No. 2 State St., Boston, affixed to a wood panel.
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A Descriptive Catalog of the Marine Collection to be found at
India House, New York: Privately Printed “At the Sign of the Gosden
Head,” 1935, leather and blue cloth bound, 130 pages of text, with
deckled edges, engraved illustrations including thirty ship portraits, eight
hand-colored, three views of China, one hand-colored, a hand-colored
portrait of a ship captain, two views of buildings, and two ship models,
all with tissue guards, first limited edition, no. 454 of an edition limited to
1000 copies, (imperfections).Provenance: From a Martha’s Vineyard, Edgartown, Massachusetts,
historical home.
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