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Sternboard with Derby Family Coat-of-Arms
ca. 179040 11/16 x 21 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (103.3 x 54 x 18.8 cm)
American artist
United States
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Wood and paint
Credit Line:
The Charles A. Carruth Memorial Fund
Accession Number:
1957.73
Location: Not currently on view
It was a common practice to decorate the bows and sterns of sailing ships with sculptures made by expert carvers. Often, these creations were embellished with painted carved figures—hence the term 'figurehead'—and occasionally symbols that identified the ship's owner. This sternboard has both. It would have been placed in the rear - the stern - of the ship. Tradition has it that the sternboard's ship was owned by Elias Derby, a prodigiously wealthy merchant from Salem, Massachusetts whose fleet of ships traveled to remote parts of the world carrying trade goods.
[Gallery label text, 2002]
[Gallery label text, 2002]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting Everson Museum of Art 1/9/1970 - 3/8/1970
- William Bingham - America, A Good Investment Roberson Museum and Science Center 2/8/1975 - 6/1/1975
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: A Memorial for Charles A. Carruth. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 23, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: November-December, 1957.
- Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Art Quarterly. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Ruth S. Wilkins, ed. American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1970.
- Adele Earnest. Folk Art In America: A Personal View. Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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