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Summary
Description Whaleship Niantic.JPG |
English:
Oil painting.
China trade painting
. Ship's portrait of whaleship
Niantic
made in a Chinese port, probably
Whampoa
(now the Huangpu District),
Canton (Guangzhou)
. Painted between 1832 and 1847 (most likely in 1840, during a particularly profitable voyage). The original hung in the captain's cabin until the
Niantic
was converted in 1849 to a hotel in San Francisco. At that time, it was transferred to the whaleship
Mary Wilder
, and subsequently remained in the captain's family to the present time.
The remains of the Connecticut-built
Niantic
lie under the Mark Twain Plaza Complex next to the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, and artifacts of the ship are in the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
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Date | Photo taken 2007-08-31. Original painting done before 1849. https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/nianticpainting.htm suggests 1836-1839. |
Source | Photograph taken by me (my own work) of a painting owned by my mother, Cynthia Riggs. |
Author | Photo by Robert Harris-Stoertz. Painting by unknown Chinese artist (Chinese characters visible on original). |
Location
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Location of painting: 41°22′58″N 70°39′58″W / 41.382778°N 70.666077°W / 41.382778; -70.666077 |
Location
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Niantic artifacts in San Francisco Maritime Museum: 37°48′23″N 122°25′26″W / 37.806393°N 122.423948°W / 37.806393; -122.423948 |
Location
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Remains of Niantic: 37°47′42″N 122°24′10″W / 37.795114°N 122.402802°W / 37.795114; -122.402802 |
Licensing
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This work was never
published
prior to January 1, 2003, and is currently in the
public domain
in the United States because it meets one of the following conditions:
The above provisions are contained in 17 U.S.C. § 303 . See also this page for more information. |