Images of the
Flying Cloud:
This list of
images includes some of the more famous ones (e.g. the 1852 Currier and Ives lithograph
as well as some images that are not as well known but where the artist may have been able to directly observe the
ship. The latter images are marked
with an asterisk.
*[I-Ares]
Thomas A. Ayres, The
Golden Gate – Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, c1855.
Lithograph made from a painting by Ayres showing Flying Cloud and the steamship John L. Stephens on San Francisco Bay.
Color image of the painting in [D-Whipple]
(pages 68-69).
*[I-Buttersworth-a] James E. Buttersworth
(1817-1894), The Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud" off the
Needles, Isle of Wight, ca. 1859-1860, University of Rochester
Memorial Art Gallery. The "Flying
Cloud" full sailing left to right on choppy waters with a smaller boat
sailing toward her from the right.
[I-Buttersworth-b] James E. Buttersworth
(1817-1894), Flying Cloud in a storm, unknown date. In [D-MacGregor]
page 59, and [D-Whipple] (page 66). Does not show skysails.
[I-Buttersworth-c] James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894), Flying
Cloud off Cape Horn, unknown date. Shows Flying Cloud
sailing from left to right in very rough seas with a torn main topsail and a
single jib. Shows only 3 yards per mast.
[I-Clark]
Unknown artist, Flying
Cloud, before 1910.
Shows Flying Cloud sailing form left to right under full sail, except a
partially reefed main sail. In [D-Clark] (frontispiece).
*[I-Currier]
Currier & Ives, The Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud",
1852. Said to be based on a
painting by James E. Buttersworth. Shows Flying Cloud under full sail on calm seas, sailing from left to
right.
*[I-Gleason's]
unknown artist, newspaper illustration
of the Flying Cloud loading in
New York for her first voyage to San Francisco, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion,
July 26 1851, page 64. Maybe an
etching made from [I-Wade].
*[I-Hong
Kong artist] Hong Kong artist, Flying Cloud in Whampoa
anchorage painted for Captain Cressy, in
about 1852. In
[D-Lyon], [D-Lane 1967] and in
[D-Lindsey]. Publication in
[Lyon] courtesy of by Mr. and Mrs. Norris Bull, Jr. The image shows the Flying Cloud sailing from left to right
under topsails.
[I-Jacobsen]
Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921), The American clipper ship Flying
Cloud at sea under full sail, 1913. Shows Flying Cloud under full sail on calm seas, sailing from left to
right.
*[I-Kern]
Edward Meyer Kern, The "Flying Cloud" Lying Off Whampoa,
June 1854, MFA Boston. Shows the Flying Cloud at anchor all sails furled.
*[I-MacPherson] unknown artist, Oil painting of the Flying Cloud,
National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Macpherson Collection, before 1863. Shown flying the Black Ball Line flag. Sailing left to
right under full sail and on calm seas.
In [D-Bowen], [D-Lubbock] and [D-Addison].
[I-Nesbitt]
Nesbitt & Co., Printers, Flying Cloud
sailing card, unknown date. In [D-State Street-b].
[I-Patterson]
Charles R. Patterson (1878-1958), Flying Cloud, National
Marine Museum San Francisco, shows men working on sail on fore royal yard. In [D-Whipple] (page 61) also, [D-MacGregor-b]
(page 76).
[I-Sailing
Card] Flying Cloud sailing card, in [State-street-b]
*[I-Scott]
John Scott (1802-1885) , Flying
Cloud off Whitby
in North Yorkshire, England, in
[D-MacGregor] (page 60) 1871. Shows double topsails and British
colors.
[I-Sheppard-]
Warren Sheppard (listed as Shepherd) (1858-1937), Flying Cloud. US Naval Institute, Annapolis,
MD. Sailing from right to
left under topsails, fore main sail and main topgallant sail. In [D-Allaby]
(opposite page 3) and [D-Cutler] (opposite page 183). Sheppard painted the Flying Cloud many times starting as early
as 1917.
[I-State
Street-p] unknown artist, Flying Cloud, in Some Ships
of the Clipper Ship Era, 1913
[I-Tudgay] J. K. Tudgay, Flying
Cloud, (no date) in [D-MacGregor-a] (page 58). Does not show skysails.
*[I-Wade]
John C. Wade (1827-?), Flying
Cloud at her New York Dock, 1851, source of or copied from
[D-GleasonŐs]. In
[D-Brewington] (page 442).
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