Barque Richard Parsons Painting.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Nantucket Historical Association, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Ships.

Shipwrecks.

Typhoons.

Voyages and travels.

Weather.

Massachusetts--Nantucket.

Genre:

Paintings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 painting).

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1889.

Summary:

Unidentified Chinese artist, oil on canvas. The Richard Parsons was perhaps the last China trade vessel commanded by a Nantucketer. B Whitford Joy was promoted to captain in 1894, but during that first voyage the Richard Parsons was driven ashore and wrecked in the Philippines by a Pacific typhoon.

Notes:

Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from 'From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade' by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.

Title from publisher's website.