Benjamin Russell Bark Ionia

Benjamin Russell Bark Ionia

Lot# 66

Price

SOLD: $1300

Description

1867 (Benjamin Russell 1804-1885, Massachusetts). Watercolor and ink on paper portrait of Bark IONIA; Cap’t John Oliver Norton Returning from Sea. IONIA was a whale ship out of New Bedford owned by Edmund Maxfield, built at Duxbury, 1848 and sold to New York owners 24 years later. From the collection of Horatio H. Hathaway by descent to his daughter-in-law Mrs. Lovering Hathaway. Private collection. Sight: 19-1/2″ H x 27-1/2″ W; Overall: 22-1/2″ x 30-1/2″.

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