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Portraits of Nantucketers Painting.
- Format:
- Other
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Alpha (Ship).
- Onward (Ship).
- Families.
- Portraits.
- Supercargos.
- Voyages and travels.
- Whaling.
- Women.
- China--Guangzhou.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 paintings).
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1804-1870.
- Summary:
- A selection of five portraits of Nantucketers, four of which are oils on canvas, and one is a miniature gouache on ivory. The subjects include Louisa Cobb Thompson, wife of Whaler William B Thompson; Joseph Winslow, Supercargo on the ship Rose; Hannah Macy Gardner, wife of Oliver Gardner; John Swain; and Joseph William Plaskett, first mate of the ship Rose.
- 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.
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