Clipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn - Vintage Maritime Print pilot quote wall art three decades before its rupture

three decades before its rupture

in marble and shadow

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

where the Union's low-slung cheesebox-on-a-raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads

Clipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn - Vintage Maritime Print pilot quote wall art three decades before its ruptureClipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph that catches the famed Boston built clipper at her most punishing latitude, hull heeled hard against the gray swell as ice laden rigging strains toward the gale. The scene belongs to that brief, glorious decade when American clippers raced the Horn for Liverpool wool and bragging rights, and Red Jacket held the record. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime