Steamboat Bunker Hill

Originally created in 1838 by Frederick Huge, Connecticut.

In the watercolor of the steamboat "Bunkerhill" the design is strikingly stylized by the transformation of waves and smoke into a pattern. While figures and flags are distorted for emphasis, the exact structure and identity of the ship are underlined. The artist, Frederick Huge, was working in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1845, and this earlier watercolor was probably painted in that state. The "Bunkerhill" was built in New Haven for the New York-Hartford route and was eventually stranded at Saybrook in 1841.

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