American Yachts at the America's Cup 1885 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the republic reaching

and the republic reaching

and harbor views where Lady Liberty greets every ship as if she'd been waiting all morning

that the republic was still ascendant

drawn in the last century that still believed the heavens could be cradled in brass

American Yachts at the America's Cup 1885 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the republic reachingAmerican Yachts at the America's Cup 1885 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph charged with the heeled over drama of Puritan and her rivals carving the chop off Sandy Hook, sails stretched taut against a Gilded Age sky. The print catches that particular September when American sloops once again turned back the British challenge, rendered with the polish of a print made for parlors that followed the racing columns religiously. About the Source