Bark Catalpa of New Bedford

Title

Bark Catalpa of New Bedford

Date made

1876

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, form one stone

Text printed from matrix

Printed title lower centre below image in black ink, 'BARK CATALPA OF NEW BEDFORD / 202 TONS REGISTER'. Printed text lower centre below image in black ink, 'DRAWN BY E.N. RUSSELL, / of New Bedford, Mass.'. Printed lower right below image in black ink, 'The Forbes Lith Mfg. Co. Boston'. Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1876, by E.N. Russell, / in the office of the Library of Congress, at Washington.'

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Subject description

In 1876 the whaling Bark Catalpa sucessfully rescued six Irish political prisoners from the British penal colony in Fremantle, Australia.

Legacy id

204642

Impressions

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

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