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Salem Pepper Traders about 1820

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

ca. 1923

GUSN

GUSN-221752

Description

Framed pencil drawing of a ship coming into port. Land featured in the left background, ship has ten sails and an American flag on the back mast.

Details

Descriptive Terms

drawings (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
graphite pencils
Drawing

Inscription

"G.C.W 1923" (handwritten)
"Salem Pepper Traders / about 1820" (printed)
"George C. Wales"
"othood sheed 1926" (handwritten)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P368

Maker

Wales, George Canning, 1868-1940

Dimensions

15 8/16 x 20 11/16 x 10/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.791

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