Antonio de Simone (Naples fl.1860-1900)

The New York Yacht Club's steam yacht Varuna in an offshore swell

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Antonio de Simone (Naples fl.1860-1900)
The New York Yacht Club's steam yacht Varuna in an offshore swell
signed 'De Simone' (lower right) and inscribed 'S.Y. VARUNA' (lower left)
bodycolour, on paper
16 x 24¾ in. (40.7 x 62.9 cm.)

拍品专文

The Varuna was the third of three very similar steam yachts designed by the great G.L. Watson of Glasgow, the others being Mayflower and Nahma. Ordered for a wealthy American, Eugene Higgins of New York, Varuna was built of steel by A. & J. Inglis at Glasgow in 1897. Registered at 1,573½ tons gross (595 net), she measured 273 feet in length with a 35 foot beam and was rigged as a twin-screw schooner. Powered by a pair of her builder's own triple-expansion 8-cylinder engines, she could make 16½ knots under steam and carried sails by Ratsey. Unfamiliar in American waters as Mr. Higgins spent most of his time in Europe, she was wrecked on the Azores in 1909.