Ship Harriet and Jessie of Charleston Entering the Port of Havre
Charles Désiré Hue, French, active 1879 - 1883
1856
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 11 3/8 × 16 in. (28.9 × 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (46.4 × 62.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
PR.958.87
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower left: J. Drouin Pinx.t; lower right: Hue. Havre; center: SHIP HARRIET & JESSIE OF CHARLESTON / entering the Port of Havre in a violent gale from NNW on the 28th March 1856 at 5 PM with the FRANCIS DEPAU / of New york ashore, she having run for the Port about 15 minutes earlier.
Provenance
The Old Print Shop, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1958.
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