$4,000
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Signed, "Raffaele Corsini" (lower right), watercolor and gouache on paper, framed; together with Captain Simeon Kingman's Journal for 1856.
17 1/2 in. x 23 in. (sight)Provenance: Property from a New Jersey Collection.
Purchased from Tepper Galleries, New York, March 19, 1988.
Pencil inscription to verso, "Bought 11/23/71 Marine Art Co. Salem, MA."
The Bark Stamboul was built in Medford, Massachusetts in 1843 by Waterman & Ewell for Turkish Consul General Joseph Iasigi and Thomas A. Goddard of Boston. The Stamboul was 106.2 feet in length, 25 feet in breadth and 14.5 feet in depth. Captain Simeon Kingman (1817-1860) of Orleans, Massachusetts commanded the bark from 1851 to 1856. In 1860, Kingman died at sea aboard the Bark Rebecca Goddard. Newspaper notices of his death are pasted in the Journal. Also accompanying lot is a typed history of the voyages and commanders of the Stamboul.