Ship Charlemagne

Item

Creator

Roux, Frederic

Title

Ship Charlemagne

Description

This is an image of the ship Emma Willard sailed from New York to Le Havre, France on in 1829. The ship Charlemagne was one of many passenger ships of the period which regularly travelled across the Atlantic, due to the rise in middle class travel.

Date

1828

Source

Original watercolor located in the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

Contributor

Snyder, Samantha

Bibliographic Citation

The Marine Room of the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem: Peabody Museum, 1921), 18-20.