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WILLIAM GAY YORKE (British/Candian, 1817-1892)
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
Sold
$2,800
Live Auction
Fall Estates Auction | November 2023
Category
Description
Yacht Wanderer (Slave Ship)
Oil on canvas mounted on board
h. 18 w. 26 in.
Was active/lived in New York, New Brunswick / England, Canada, signed lower left, titled on plaque attached to frame
overall: 23 x 31-1/2 in. (frame)
Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people.
Oil on canvas mounted on board
h. 18 w. 26 in.
Was active/lived in New York, New Brunswick / England, Canada, signed lower left, titled on plaque attached to frame
overall: 23 x 31-1/2 in. (frame)
Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people.
Condition
Painting is in restored condition; black-lighting reveals that it is heavily in-painted throughout, mostly the sails and the sky; figures on deck are largely untouched; the canvas has been mounted on board
Provenance
Descent through a Greenwich, CT family
