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Watercolor painting, in a relatively naive style, of the steamship
Nimrod
, captained by John Brooks of Bridgeport. The painting depicts the sidewheel steamer moving towards the left, and two sailing vessels in the background, one at left and one at right. A small red flag with a white letter "N" on it flies at the bow, and a large American flag with 26 stars arranged in a star formation on the canton flies from the stern. A thirteen-star pennant, very long and narrow, flies directly atop the American flag. There are two smokestacks In the center of the vessel with black-ish smoke eminating from them. The paddlewheel can be seen at the center of the port side of the vessel. Passengers are crowded on the decks. A somewhat choppy sea forms the foreground. Presumably this depicts passengers heading to New York City from Bridgeport, crossing Long Island Sound.
The artist's signature is on the lower right, and reads "drawn and painted by J. Frederick Huge Bridgeport Conn. 1839." Huge was a self-taught artist whose primary occupation was as a grocer in Bridgeport; he emigrated from Germany around or just before 1830. He sought commissions to paint ship portraits, as well as a few portraits of homes belonging to prominent citizens.
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