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Hoyt, Margaret Howard Yeaton
USA, MA, Essex
1930
14.00 x 18.00 x 0

Soft-ground etching by Margaret Hoyt, entitled "The building of the ship", showing a Gloucester fishing schooner on the ways at the Story Yard in Essex, MA, summer 1930. Arthur D. Story shipyard has been in continuous operation since 1668, and many of Gloucester's highline fishing schooners were built there"... The artist, Margaret Howard Yeaton Hoyt (1885-1943) was a native of Baltimore, MD, but spent most of the summers of her life in Gloucester, Mass."

UNIDENTIFIED fishing schooner
1959.1228