Document No 4033: Columbia and Shamrock I Off Sandy Hook

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AUTEUR : J. Clark

REF : 0

EDITION : 1899

DATE : 20 Oct 1899 - 12:28

COURSE : 8

DESCRIPTION SITE :

Oil on panel depicting the 1899 America's Cup race off Sandy Hook, New Jersey with J. Pierpont Morgan's "Columbia" chasing Sir Thomas Lipton's "Shamrock I." Pierpont's Yacht is in the background. The painting is remarkably detailed and signed "J. Clark" in red in the lower right corner. The painting may be a copy of the Eduardo de Martino original that hangs in the New York Yacht Club.

NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :

THE AMERICA'S CUP WILL REMAIN HERE; Columbia Makes it Three Straight from Shamrock. WON BY OVER SIX MINUTES

NEWPORT, R.I., Oct. 20. -- The cup is safe, and Columbia is the gem of the ocean. The yachting supremacy of the United States is just where it was before the formidable Shamrock was turned out of the brain of Will Fife of Fairlie, and there is a place for another challenger as soon as one can be found who will undertake the task of “lifting” the cup....

LICENCE :
Autorisation en cours
BATEAUX : COLUMBIA SHAMROCK
LIENS VERS CE DOCUMENT
SITE LARG HAUT ADRESSE