This Print representing the B &amp; N.A. Royal Mail Steamship Britannia John Hewitt, Commander, leaving her dock at East Boston on the 3rd of February 1844 on her voyage to Liverpool (through) a canal cut in the ice 7 miles long and 100 feet wide...
<p>Repro ID: S4191
Colour lithograph showing the Cunard paddle steamer Britannia (1840) 'As she appeared leaving her dock at East Boston, February 3rd, 1844, bound from Boston to Liverpool, a canal having been cut into the ice 7 miles long and 100 feet wide'. Many observers stand on the ice and wave at the ship and the Boston coast stretches across the background beneath a stormy sky. A second version of the print includes a dedication 'by the Publishers to the Merchants of Boston who projected and paid for the canal'.
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Sheet: 455 x 647 mm
J. C. King, A. de Vaudricourt, Bouve &amp; Sharp
1844
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