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JAMES BARD (American, 1815-1897) The Steamboat Ferry Princeton, 1880 image 1
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Lot 51

JAMES BARD
(American, 1815-1897)
The Steamboat Ferry Princeton, 1880

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

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JAMES BARD (American, 1815-1897)

The Steamboat Ferry Princeton, 1880
signed "J. BARD. NY. / 1880" at lower right; retains gallery labels of Hirschl & Adler and the Dietrich Collections on reverse
pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper, float-mounted in later frame under conservation glass
21 x 37 1/2 in.
framed 27 x 43 1/2 in.

Footnotes

Provenance
Property from an Important New York Collection.
Portsmouth Americana and Marine Auction, Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (18 August 2019), Lot 134.
Theodore Cross, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1985.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1985.
Dietrich Collections, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1970.

Literature
Illustrated in Anthony J. Peluso, Jr., The Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail (Newport News: Mariners' Museum, 1997), p. 154. Also see checklist entry on p. 169.
Illustrated in Peluso, J. & J. Bard: Picture Painters (New York: Hudson River Press, 1977), p. 89. Also see checklist entry on p. 120.

Exhibitions
Plain & Fancy: A Survey of American Folk Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1970.
J. & J. Bard, Picture Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yorkers, New York, 1977.

Note
Princeton, a double-ended ferry with two identical pilot houses, was built in 1880 and owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It operated on the Delaware River until 1906. Two years after Bard completed this watercolor, the boat was painted "Pennsylvania Railroad red" over the traditional white.

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