Currier & Ives’ Clipper Ship Three Brothers presents the famous vessel at full sail, its towering masts and immense spread of canvas dominating a restless sea beneath a luminous sky. The carefully rendered rigging, billowing sails, and bustling deck convey both the extraordinary scale of the ship and the speed for which American clippers were celebrated. With its dramatic composition and rich hand-colored palette, the image exemplifies the romantic appeal of 19th-century American marine prints.
Published in 1875, the print depicts the Three Brothers, a 2,972-ton vessel originally built in New York in 1855 as the steamship Vanderbilt. After service with the U.S. government during the Civil War, the ship was sold to San Francisco merchants, converted to a full-rigged sailing ship, and renamed Three Brothers. Currier & Ives promoted it as “the largest sailing ship in the world”. The vessel’s enormous size and reputation for speed made it an especially compelling subject for the firm’s popular prints celebrating American maritime achievement.
🖨️ Print features:
– Sustainable canvas stretched on radial pine frame
– Unique canvas coating for top-notch image quality
– Soft rubber dots on bottom back corners for support
– Safe latex inks for non-toxic printing
– Back hanging included
– Inner frame made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
– Please note: Due to the production process of the canvases, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance +/- 1/8″ (3.2mm)
– Care instructions: If the canvas does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.
🚚 Fulfillment, Shipping, and Return Policy:
– Printed and shipped from the U.S.
– As our items are unique and made to order, we can only accept a return or exchange in the event that an item arrives damaged or misprinted. We cannot accept returns if you order the wrong size or change your mind. Any return requests must be made within 14 days of receiving the order.
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