PIERHEAD SCHOOL (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

S.S. ‘City of Rome’

Oil on canvas, laid on board

11 x 18in. (28 x 46cm.)

Built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. originally for the Inman Line, City of Rome registered 3,415 gross tons and with her elegant clipper bow and four masts, she was called the world’s most beautiful liner. After five voyages with Inman, she transferred to the Anchor Line in 1882 on the same trans-Atlantic run between Liverpool and New York. In 1898 she repatriated 1,690 Spanish troops from Portsmouth, USA to Santander after the Spanish-American War. She was scrapped in Germany in 1902.

Condition Report

Would benefit from a clean

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