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Victor Charles Edouard Adam (French, 1868-1938) SS Camperdown leaving Le Havre, a pair (2) unframed image 1
Victor Charles Edouard Adam (French, 1868-1938) SS Camperdown leaving Le Havre, a pair (2) unframed image 2
Lot 106

Victor Charles Edouard Adam
(French, 1868-1938)
SS Camperdown leaving Le Havre, a pair (2) unframed

1 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £956.25 inc. premium

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Victor Charles Edouard Adam (French, 1868-1938)

SS Camperdown leaving Le Havre, a pair
both signed 'V ADAM/1890/ROUEN' (lower right)
oil on canvas
62 x 92cm (24 7/16 x 36 1/4in).(2)
unframed

Footnotes

The SS Camperdown was built in 1889 by John Blumer for Pinkeys, Clare & Nye, London. Primarily transporting goods throughout the North Atlantic, she would change hands, and name, several times throughout her career. The last of these moves being her sale to Rederi AB Gustav Wasa in Kalmar, Sweden, in 1924 at which point she was renamed Gustav Wasa. It is at this time that she would be given the nickname 'snebelcreutz', accounting for her her unusual bow shape having originally had a bowsprit - snebel being Swedish for proboscis and Creutz being the name of a prominent Maritime family in Sweden. Camperdown met her end in 1936, sinking off the coast of Sweden after running aground in adverse weather.

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