GREAT REPUBLIC Lithograph, 1853

color lithograph

Color lithograph of the 4-masted bark GREAT REPUBLIC. Vessel seen on starboard tack. "PAINTED BY J. E. BUTTERWORTH" printed below the image toward the left, and "LITH. BY N. CURRIER N.Y." printed at right. In center of image is printed; "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by L. McKay, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y." Printed on the next line "To Donald McKay Esq. builder of the Leviathan/ CLIPPER SHIP 'GREAT REPUBLIC'./ This print is respectfully dedicated".

Donald McKay was the builder and designer of the bark GREAT REPUBLIC (1853). She was originally built as a ship, but burned and was rebuilt as a bark.

James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) was an American artist. He was born in England, and died in NJ. Many of his pictures were published by Currier & Ives; he exhibited at American Art Union in 1850 and 1852.