6-Masted Schooner GEORGE W. WELLS

oil painting

PAINTINGS - OIL
marad; paintings
Badger, Samuel F. M.; Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore
18.94 x 30.19 x 0

Oil painting on canvas, starboard view of 6-masted schooner GEORGE W. WELLS (bu. 1900, Camden, ME, by H. M. Bean, owned by J. G. Crowley); lighthouse at left, painted lower right "TAKEn fRom N. L. STEBBINS' COPYRIGHTED PHOTOGRAPH" and lower left "S. F. M. Badger/ BY PERMISSION of N. L. StEBBinS." Handwritten on canvas back "S. F. M. Badger/ 5 Trenton St./ Charlestown Mass." Five tears, framed. See 74.577.144 for Stebbins photograph and 76.1.112 for Leavitt watercolor from same photograph. Among the largest wooden vessels every built, the WELLS could carry up to 5000 tons of coal, an unheard-of capacity for a wooden hull.

1978.117