Cross, Roy – Catch Me Who Can – Odon Wagner Gallery and Odon Wagner Contemporary

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	Cross, Roy - Biography

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Catch Me Who Can

Gouache on paper, 20.5 x 30 inches, 52.1 x 76.2 cm

Price Code C
Inventory #15152

Roy Cross RSMA & SAVA (Royal Society of Marine Painters & Society of Aviation Artists)
British (b.1924)
signed and dated 'Roy Cross c.1979' (lower right)
bearing the following label on the reverse:

“CATCH ME WHO CAN” - 1815

The famed Baltimore clipper schooner “Catch Me Who Can”, described in Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser for March 18, 1815, as “burthen 65 tons, sails remarkably well, and is well found in every respect-.” Here she glides from the crowded little harbour of old Baltimore, with the great red clay bank of Federal Hill in the background surmounted by Captain David Porter’s signal station.

Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario

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