Great Lakes Art Database

City of Cleveland II

Description
Creator
Whipple, Seth Arca
Item Types
Lithographs
Paintings
Description
Color lithograph from a Seth Arca Whipple painting of the passenger steamer CITY OF CLEVELAND (II); twin stacks set athwartship ; broadside view of this sidewheel vessel; flying U.S. and company flags and several city pennants; litho by Calvert Lithographic Co. of Detroit; 3.25" ornate gilt frame. Typesetting across bottom of litho reads "The Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company"
Notes
Gift made in memory of donor's father, Robert H. Beauchamp, who was with the Interlake SS Co. of Cleveland, OH for 35 years until his retirement at the age of 65. He began sailing as a boy of 14 when steamers were still using wood for fuel. The Beauchamps are a pioneer family of Marine City, Mich., having settled there when the town was called
Newport.
Date of Original
ca. 1886
Date Of Event
ca1886
Dimensions
Width: 36.5 in
Height: 22.5 in
Image Dimensions
Image Width: 29in
Image Height: 15in
Subject(s)
Advertising
City of Cleveland (steamboat)
Local identifier
W1956.001.001
Collection
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Language of Item
English
Donor
Robert. F. Beauchamp
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
Detroit Historical Society
Email:jeremyd@detroithistorical.org
Website:
http://detroithistorical.org

Street/mail address:

Jeremy Dimick

Director of Collections & Curatorial

Detroit Historical Society

5401 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, MI USA 48202

P. 313.297.8391

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City of Cleveland II


Color lithograph from a Seth Arca Whipple painting of the passenger steamer CITY OF CLEVELAND (II); twin stacks set athwartship ; broadside view of this sidewheel vessel; flying U.S. and company flags and several city pennants; litho by Calvert Lithographic Co. of Detroit; 3.25" ornate gilt frame. Typesetting across bottom of litho reads "The Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company"