Bark Catalpa of New Bedford
Title
Date made
1876
Place made
North & Central America, United States of America, Massachusetts, Boston View on map Close map
Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
lithograph, printed in black ink, form one stone
Support
smooth off-white paper
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject description
In 1876 the whaling Bark Catalpa sucessfully rescued six Irish political prisoners from the British penal colony in Fremantle, Australia.
IRN
204642
Accession number
2010.1039
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)
Provenance
Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Marie Louise Wordsworth, Perth, October 2010.
Credit line
The Wordsworth Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010
Subject categories
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.
Last Updated
09 Jan 2013