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Lot 44

JAMES BARD
(American, 1815-1897)
Seawanhaka, 1868

19 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$30,000 - US$50,000

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JAMES BARD (American, 1815-1897)

Seawanhaka, 1868
signed "J. BARD. NY. 1868. 162. Perry St." at lower right; unidentified gallery label affixed to top stretcher on reverse
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.
framed 36 1/2 x 56 1/2 in.

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Provenance
Property from an Important New York Collection.
Old Print Shop, New York, New York.

Literature
Illustrated in The Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail (Newport News: Mariner's Museum, 1997), p. 54, 170. According to the exhibition catalogue, "Seawanhaka served the Long Island & North Shore Passenger & Freight Transportation Company before she caught fire on June 28, 1880, on an afternoon trip to Glen Cove, ran ashore at Sunken Meadow and burned, losing forty lives. The accident spawned years of litigation and pages of lurid newspaper coverage."

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