"The Wreck of the Steam Ship SAN FRANCISCO"

color lithograph

PRINTS - LITHOGRAPHS
web coll buttersworth01
Currier, N.; Buttersworth, James E.
1854
17-1/4 x 23-3/4 in.; frame 27-5/8 x 33-5/8 in.

Color lithograph: "THE WRECK OF THE STEAM SHIP "SAN FRANCISCO"". Ships ANTARCTIC and THREE BELLS taking passengers off the foundering SAN FRANCISCO (bu. 1853, foundered and lost same year). Published in 1854 by N. Currier. Below image, at left: "Paint. by F.E. Buttersworth" (sic), at right: "LITH. BY N. CURRIER."

1983.89.14