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A starboard-broadside view of the clipper ship 'John Bertham.' She was named after a famous Salem sea captain and merchant. She was a pioneer of Glidden & Williams' line of San Francisco clippers, regularly servicing the route from Boston to San Francisco from 1851-1853. In the print after Clement Drew, held at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, she is sailing in windy weather. She flies a US flag at her stern and other identifying house flags. A lighthouse is in the far left background.


ship portraits
1850-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Bufford, John Henry; Drew, C.
ink; paper
16 1/2 in x 20 3/4 in
USA: Massachusetts, Boston