Document No 613: Cutter Genesta, R.Y.S.

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AUTEUR : Currier and Ives

REF : 0

EDITION : 1885

DATE : 1885

COURSE : 0

DESCRIPTION SITE :

Lithograph printed in color, 1885
Large folio - image size 15 3/16 x 21" (386 x 534 mm).
Fair to good condition. several creases in lower left corner. Backed on thin rag paper.
LOCATION: New York City

Inventory Number: 19515
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher : Published by Currier & Ives 115 Nassau St. New York.
Signed in stone "C. R. Parsons 85."

The yacht Genesta was the English challenger in the fifth America's Cup in 1885. She raced against the American defender Puritan. The cutter Genesta was designed by John Beavor-Webb and built by the D&W Henderson shipyard on the River Clyde in 1884, for owner Sir Richard Sutton, 5th Baronet, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England.

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Public domain
BATEAUX : GENESTA
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