Height, 30 inches; width, 40 inches

Water color. Signed.
This painting records a glorious event in the history of our country.
Commodore Sloat's Fleet hoisting the American Flag over the Custom
House at Monterey, July 1846. This was of great historical importance
-it meant the establishment of law and order in California. Three
years later gold was discovered, and California was metamorphosed from
a despised desert into the "Mecca" of treasure-hunters from all over
the world.

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ADOLPHUS KNUTH

114

THE SEAL HUNTERS

CIRCA 1835

Painting on panel. Signed and dated lower right. Framed.

Height, 16 inches; width, 20 inches

Three American ships in the Behring Strait, variously engaged in capturing and hunting seal.

WHALING PRINTS

NUMBERS 115-120

115

WHALING

The North-West or Davis's Straits Whale Fishery.

Robert Dodd delin. Fran. Ambrose sculpt. Line engraving, colored.
Folio. Framed.

116 WHALING

Two American Ships in the Ice Floes of the Arctic, with an attack by
Walrus on the men in the longboats to the right.

Colored lithograph by L. Lebreton. Folio. Framed.

117 WHALING

118

Sperm whaling with its varieties. Colored lithograph by J.H.Bufford,
Boston. Published 1870. Large folio. Framed.

Printed line beneath print acts as a key to designate the various whaling
activities of the many longboats, and the whaling fleet. RARE.

SPERM WHALING "THE CHASE"

From a drawing by A. Van Best and R. S. Gifford, corrected by Benjamin
Russell. Colored lithograph by Endicott & Co., New York. Large folio.
Framed. Mended.

119 SPERM WHALING NO. 2-"THE CAPTURE”

After the drawing by A. Van Best and R. S. Gifford, corrected by
Benjamin Russell. Colored lithograph by Endicott & Co., New York.
Published by Taber, 1852. Large folio. Framed.

120 SPERM WHALING NO. 2—“THE CONFLICT”

Colored lithograph by Frank & Mayer, Boston, after the painting by
J. Cole. Published by Charles Faber, New Bedford, 1858. Large folio.
Framed.

The B. and N. A. Royal Mail Steamship "Britannia," John Hewitt,
Commander, leaving her dock at East Boston on the 3rd of February
1844.... through a canal, cut in the ice, 7 miles long and 100 feet wide.
Lithographed by Bouvé and Sharp, Boston 1844, after the sketch by
J. C. King. Folio. Framed.

BROOKLYN FROM THE WALL STREET FERRY HOUSE

Smith Brothers del. Colored lithograph. Folio. Framed.

View showing the river and wharfs, with many of the fine old ships at the dock.

123 CHARLESTON, S. C.

Southern View of Charleston, So.Ca.

Drawn from nature by William Keenan. Colored lithograph. Large folio. Framed.

124 CHARLESTON, S. C.

Eastern view of the City of Charleston, S. C. (Front.) Drawn from nature by Wm. Keenan. Colored lithograph. Large folio. Framed.

125

GARDNER'S BAY, LONG ISLAND

Set of three prints. "The Storm Increased"; "The Ramillies" Water
Logged"; "The Ramillies Destroyed".

Robert Dodd pinx. Aquatints printed in color by F. Jukes. Published
London, 1795. Large folio. Framed. (3)

Incidents of the British Fleet off Long Island, struck by a terrific storm
in which many of the ships were dismasted, and the "Ramillies" so badly
battered it finally became necessary to destroy her. The location is in
Gardner's Bay, off Gardner's Island, Long Island.

126 VIEW OF GLOUCESTER, MASS.

F. H. Lane pinxt. L. H. Bradford & Company lith. Published by
Procter Brothers. Colored lithograph. Large folio. Framed.

127 HAVANA 1851

Dedicated to the Governor General. Harbor with ships and view of the
City.

Published by Smith, Hermanos & Company, London.
Colored. Framed.

Large folio.

128 HEMPSTEAD BEACH, LONG ISLAND, 1837

Dreadful wreck of the "Mexico" on Hempstead Beach, January 2nd, 1837; as now exhibiting at Hanington's Dioramas.

Drawn on the spot by H. Sewel. Lithographed by N. Currier. Published at the Sun Office. Colored lithograph. Small folio. Framed. THE ONLY COPY KNOWN of this print, and one of the earliest of N. Currier's work. The "Mexico" was lost on Hempstead Beach, L. I., in 1837, bound for Liverpool, and 115 persons lost their lives.

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