KAREN McCOOEY
NOTE: The price reflects a 50% discount for a quick sale. It is in A- condition. This print has never been framed and it has always been stored in an architectural flat file drawer, but it does have very minor corner bends and a few minor scuffs.
Artist: John Stobart
Edition Size: 750
Print Offered: 254 / 750 / Signed and numbered by the artist, John Stobart.
Medium: Offset Lithograph Print
Paper: Fine Art, Acid Free
Image Size: 20" x 34" / Paper Size: 28 1/2" x 39 1/2"
Date Issued: 1975, sold out
Remarqued: No
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Artist: John Stobart
Edition Size: 750
Print Offered: 254 / 750 / Signed and numbered by the artist, John Stobart.
Medium: Offset Lithograph Print
Paper: Fine Art, Acid Free
Image Size: 20" x 34" / Paper Size: 28 1/2" x 39 1/2"
Date Issued: 1975, sold out
Remarqued: No
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About This Print:
Included in San Francisco's armada of gold seekers were many foreign ships. The Vicar of Bray, shown here, was an English ship built in 1841 by Robert Hardy. The bark was named after a sixteenth-century English vicar whose religious 'convictions' during the Reformation and post-Reformation shifted with preference of each occupant of the British throne, and thus he both survived and prospered while many of his more resolute brethren were either burned at the stake or hanged.
When the Vicar of Bray arrived in San Francisco on November 3, 1849, there were approximately 741 abandoned vessels in the cove. Even though there was a twelve-year jail penalty for jumping ship, the lust for gold usually over came all reason. The ships abandoned by their crews were pulled ashore to serve as hotels and warehouses.
