Image / [Off Maceio, Brazil, South America, US Brig Dolphin, February 1st, 1860]

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Title: [Off Maceio, Brazil, South America, US Brig Dolphin, February 1st, 1860]
Creator: Galt (active ca. 1855-ca. 1860), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Brig "Dolphyn" (ship) flying US flag from stern heels over in choppy sea; other smaller sailing vessels head for port city on Brazilian coast in distance; darkening sky above.
Handwritten title (LC): Off Maceio, S[outh] America, U.S. Brig Dolphin, Feb[ruary] 1st, 1860. For explanation of attribution to Galt, see artist's biography.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 21.6 x 27.9 cm., oval image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf496nb5bk
BANC PIC 1963.002:0731--A
Subject: Brazil
South America
Vessels

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