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The SUCCESS, 622 tons, Captain Stuart
Frederick Garling1849
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
Watercolour depicting the vessel SUCCESS with Captain Piper's villa at Eliza Point (now Point Piper) visible in the background. In a career that spanned 106 years (1840-1946) and four continents, SUCCESS performed a variety of roles such as emigrant ship, trader, prison hulk and exhibition ship. The vessel achieved great fame in the twentieth century as a floating museum, based partly on the erroneous claim that it had transported convicts to Australia. This painting predates the vessel becoming a prison hulk and exhibition ship.
Details
- Title: The SUCCESS, 622 tons, Captain Stuart
- Creator: Frederick Garling
- Date: 1849
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Painting
- Significance: In a career that spanned 106 years (1840-1946) and four continents, SUCCESS performed a variety of roles such as emigrant ship, trader, prison hulk and exhibition ship. The vessel achieved great fame in the twentieth century as a floating museum, based partly on the erroneous claim that it had transported convicts to Australia.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 558 mm, 0.45 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
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