The Steamship 'syracuse'

Title

The Steamship 'syracuse'

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"The Steamship 'Syracuse'"

Artist: James Bard (American, 1815-1897)

Title: The Steamship 'Syracuse'

Object Type: Painting

Date: 1857

Dimensions: Height: 762 mm (30 in); Width: 1,320.80 mm (52 in)

Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California USA

Location: de Young Gallery 23

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Burgess Jamieson

The 1825 opening of the Erie Canal, which connected the Hudson River city of Albany with Buffalo on Lake Erie, greatly expanded commercial trade with New York City. Self-taught artist James Bard took advantage of the increasing number of Hudson River sailboats and steamships by creating thousands of detailed ship portraits. Bard's idealized images, often commissioned by ship owners, obscured the danger of travel in steamboats, which sometimes burned and sank when their overheated boilers exploded.

The paddle-wheel box of the Syracuse, which bears imagery of the sun rising behind modern factories, celebrates that city's industry and prominent position on the Erie Canal, a gateway to the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. The Syracuse was owned by the Schuyler Steam Towboat Company, founded in 1825 by Samuel Schuyler (1781–1842), an African-American "free man of color" who bore the name of one of New York's oldest Dutch colonial families.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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