AFTER Antonio Jacobsen (AMERICAN, 1850-1921)
The Cunard Steam Ship 'Bothnia', circa 1878
Partial signature (now unreadable) and dated '1874' (left of centre, lower edge)
Oil on canvas, removed from stretcher and rolled
26½ x 43in. (67.5 x 109cm.) painted area

A liner of just over 4,500 tons, Bothnia was built in 1874 by J.G. Thomson & Co. for the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company which became part of Cunard in 1878 with whom she maintained her Liverpool-New York via Queenstown run. She was broken up at Marseilles in 1899.

Provenance: J. G. Thomson & Co, Shipbuilding, Glasgow, given to David Moor, Naval Architect, on yard's closure.

Condition Report
Part-signature (unreadable) and date for 1874 found left of centre on lower edge;

old wear and substancial areas of paint loss, requests restoration and re stretching

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