Henry Clay Jarrett
United States
1861
Ink on paper, engraving, and printed ticket, framed
Framed grouping
Provenance: Private collection, Tennessee
This framed grouping brings together four pieces of paper ephemera connected to the steamship Great Eastern. At the upper left is a hand tinted engraving of the ship captioned as the Great Eastern or Leviathan, with a printed table of its dimensions below, and beside it a mailing cover addressed in ink to Mrs. M. Granger at 16 La Grange Place, Boston, Massachusetts, bearing a stamp, a postmark, and a handwritten note reading letter with colored engraving of the Great Eastern. A printed excursion ticket for the Great Eastern, running from New York to Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, and Portsmouth at six dollars, is mounted at the center.
The handwritten letter is headed from the S.S. Great Eastern off Sandy Hook and dated May 11, 1861, and opens to Mrs. Granger before recounting the writer's return aboard the ship. Signed by Henry Clay Jarrett, the letter continues, per its contents, to an appointment with President Abraham Lincoln. The pieces are arranged together on blue matting within a fitted frame with a descriptive caption card.
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Henry Clay Jarrett
United States
1861
Ink on paper, engraving, and printed ticket, framed
Framed grouping
Provenance: Private collection, Tennessee
This framed grouping brings together four pieces of paper ephemera connected to the steamship Great Eastern. At the upper left is a hand tinted engraving of the ship captioned as the Great Eastern or Leviathan, with a printed table of its dimensions below, and beside it a mailing cover addressed in ink to Mrs. M. Granger at 16 La Grange Place, Boston, Massachusetts, bearing a stamp, a postmark, and a handwritten note reading letter with colored engraving of the Great Eastern. A printed excursion ticket for the Great Eastern, running from New York to Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, and Portsmouth at six dollars, is mounted at the center.
The handwritten letter is headed from the S.S. Great Eastern off Sandy Hook and dated May 11, 1861, and opens to Mrs. Granger before recounting the writer's return aboard the ship. Signed by Henry Clay Jarrett, the letter continues, per its contents, to an appointment with President Abraham Lincoln. The pieces are arranged together on blue matting within a fitted frame with a descriptive caption card.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
