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Image Not Available for The "Flying Cloud" Lying off Whampoa
The "Flying Cloud" Lying off Whampoa
Image Not Available for The "Flying Cloud" Lying off Whampoa

The "Flying Cloud" Lying off Whampoa

Edward Meyer Kern (American, 1823–1863)
1854
Medium/TechniquePen and ink and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 25.3 x 29.4 cm (9 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number59.904
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ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower left, in pen and ink: Sketch of Am. Clipper / "Flying Cloud" / Laying off Whampoa. / June / 54 Lower center: Kern delt.ProvenanceGiven by the artist to Captain William Brenton Boggs, the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition's purser; bought from Bogg's granddaughter by Maxim Karolik. Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1959