Russell W. Knight Department of Maritime Art and History
PEM's internationally renowned maritime holdings communicate personal and collective experiences of the sea during the formative times of the modern world. By their very nature, these works cross geographic, cultural and traditional disciplinary boundaries in ways that broaden perspectives, attitudes and knowledge of the individual within our world of infinite global connections.
The extremely diverse collection area dates to the genesis of the institution - the formation of the East India Marine Society in 1799. More than two centuries of collecting have produced the finest and most comprehensive assemblage of art and objects relating to the sea in the country, including grand gold-framed oil paintings, drawings, ship models, marine decorative arts, tools, weapons, navigational instruments and ship and yacht plans. Particular strengths lie in marine painting, works on paper and ship carving from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.
Images
Tatara, ca. 1974
Gift of D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D.
Naval Engagement of July 7-8th, 1777; 1779
Museum Purchase
Iron Helmet and Breast & Back plae used in Gioco del Pante of 1807
Iron Helmet (Morione) and Breast & Back plate (Petto & Schiene) used in Gioco del Pante of 1807; Brought back from Italy by Capt. Samuel Tucker in 1807
USS Vincennes in Disappointment Bay, after 1845
Museum Purchase
Panorama of a Whaling Voyage, ca. 1860
Museum Purchase
Syracuse, 1857
Gift of F. B. C. Bradlee
Royal Presentation Octant, ca. 1786
Gift of Strafford Morss.
Dreadnought, ca. 1853
Museum purchase.
Southern Cross leaving Boston Harbor, 1851
Gift of Stephen Wheatland.
Water Witch, Ship, ca. 1853
Estate of James and John Phelps.
Pair of Vases, ca. 1817
Museum Purchase.
Panorama of a Whaling Voyage, ca. 1860
Museum Purchase
Ship Ulysses of Salem with Captain Cook cast away on Cape Cod
Gift of Augustus P. Loring, Jr.
Female Figurehead, ca. 1805
Museum purchase.
On board ship Caroline Augusta, Scrimshawed Tooth, 1848
Gift of Augusta Creamer.
Ramble, in the Pearl River, China
Gift of Charles H. Taylor.
New Ways on Banquereau, 1981
Gift of Russel W. Knight
Sketch of carvings for Ship Le Tonnant, 1746
Museum Purchase.
Columbia River Manuscript Chart, 1812-1818
Gift of Mrs. Francis N. Chapman.
Aquitania, Cunard Line. Europe-America, 1929
Bequest of F. B. C. Bradlee.
The Famous Four, Hamburg America Line, 1920s
Gift of Stephen S. Lash.
Derby Wharf, 1840-50
Gift of Philip Little
The sea and land monsters that are found in many northern places, 1552-1565 Wood
Gift of Francis B. Lothrop.
The Day's Catch, 1907
Gift of Russell W. Knight.
L’Astrolabe and la Zelee in the Torres Straight, ca. 1856
Museum purchase.
Model of Fijian Double Canoe (Waga Drua), ca. 1830
Gift of Captain Thomas C. Dunn.
Seiners, 1920
Gift of Russell W. Knight.
S.S. Titanic, for Coney Island’s Titanic Disaster Attraction, 1914
Bequest of F. B. C. Bradlee.
At The Wheel, 1905
Gift of Mr. John Monks.
Chelsea Creek, 1832
Gift of Gift of heirs of Albert Davis Bosson and the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, 1983.
American Frigate Entering a French Port, ca. 1805
Gift of Henry S. Streeter.
The Midshipman’s Birth, early 1800s
Museum Purchase.
Grandee Figurehead
Gift of Mrs. David Little.
East Indiaman, Calcutta harbor, 1794
Museum Purchase.
Ship Monterey of Boston. Entering the Port of Genoa May 9th, 1851
Gift of the Monks Collection.
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