Vintage John Stobart Ltd Ed Print 

“Saint Mary Approaching Cape Horn”

 1981 Pencil Signed #43 of 350

Unframed

Item Description  

Here is a great signed limited edition nautical print done by John Stobart for your buying consideration.  Would make a great gift or keep for yourself!

Here is a nice John Stobart early highly sought after limited edition print (1981).  The print is in very good condition.  The print was done, within five years after he came to this country from Canada by way of England, to start selling his unique style and works in America.  He set up his company called, Maritime Heritage Prints in 1976, so this was one of the very early and treasured pieces by collectors of Stobart's work. 

Beautiful detailing and colors in this rendering.  This is number 43 of the limited edition of 350.  We have not had one of the limited editions of this rendering to offer to our clients before.  The print does not come with a certificate of authenticity.  Pencil Hand signed and numbered in the right bottom corner of the print. 

No foxing or brown spotting of the print going on.  There is a rough spot or spotting to the paper outside of the image along the bottom edge.  Some crimping to the paper along the bottom left edge.  The print is not framed or matted.

This fine art piece is being offered to you at a price below what you would see in a high end gallery.  We are able to do that by controlling our acquisition costs, keeping commission costs low (if applicable), and then we don't have the overhead to pay that a gallery does.

The John Stobart Ltd Edition Print is 25" tall, by 28" across.  The image portion of the print is 21" tall, by 24" across.  Let us know if you have any questions or need additional pictures.  Don’t be shy to make an offer, as we are always open to reasonable suggestions!

The pictures provided both complement and supplement the listing description, so please look at them very closely as well.  With old items, there is no way one can capture all the little imperfections in words, so the two media are meant to be the full description.  

Make sure that this item meets your needs and requirements before deciding to acquire it.   The item can be returned, there is a 10% restocking fee to do so.  So again, ask all questions you have, come see in person or send a friend to see the item on your behalf, prior to deciding to acquire it.  

We will also have some other John Stobart limited edition prints for sale separately in our store. The listing numbers are 121996243444, 122052235139 (Artist Proof & Ltd Ed) and 112006893052.  Just put the item # into the search line and it will come up or just go into the Marine/Nautical section of our store to find the print.

Some information about the print;

Down Easters, built in Maine between 1870 and 1900, represented the last American attempt to participate under sail in world trading. Seen in this painting is the Down Easter St. Mary. The big wooden ship of 1,941.7 tons, 240 feet in length, was built at Phippsburg Center, near Bath, by C. V. Minott and launched on March 20, 1890. She then left under tow for New York, where she was fittsed out and took on cargo. Her commander, Captain Jesse T. Carver, was a part owner of the ship and had invested most of his savings in her. She sailed from New York on May 23, for San Francisco.

The painting shows the St. Mary on this maiden voyage, battling a sudden squall in the vicinity of Cape Horn. She has been surprised by the passage of a local front with squall winds. The icy blasts have blown the ship’s main upper topsail bodily out of its boltropes and ripped it into shreds of streaming canvas. On the fore upper topsail yard, men are battling to save that sail from a similar fate. They have managed to heave part of the sail onto the yard and lash it there, but another part to larboard still defies their efforts and threatens to tear itself loose from their freezing fingers.

The ship is making heavy weather of it, her bows plunging deeply into the swells, whose tops are ripped off by the force of the wind and sent flying to leeward as driven spume. The St. Mary never reached San Francisco, for off Cape Horn on this maiden voyage she was severely damaged in a collision with the British ship Magellan, which sank with all hands. The crippled St. Mary struggled toward a port of refuge in the Falkland Islands butt drove hard aground at night on Pinnacle Rock, between Brunt and Elephant islands in that desolate group. The following morning her crew launched the lifeboats and reached shore, but Captain Carver refused to leave his ship.

At the Maine State Museum in Augusta visitors can now see a thirty-ton section of the St. Mary’s hull, an impressive sight with its massive timbers and stout planking. This relic was retrieved from the Falkland Islands by a team from the National Maritime Historical Society. They brought it home in 1979 to rest in the capital city of Maine as a lasting symbol of the great role played by generations of Maine men and women in America’s seafaring drama.

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