Lot 170: Frederic Schiller Cozzens (American, 1846-1928)

Frederic Schiller Cozzens (American, 1846-1928)
Rounding the Lightship, Fannie, Gracie and Rover and A Misty Morning-Drifting
each signed and dated 'Fred S. Cozzens 83.' (lower left); published by Scribner & Son., N.Y., 1884
chromolithograph
each 16 x 22½ in. (40.6 x 57.2 cm.) (plate) (2)

Anita Jacobsen, Frederic Cozzens, Marine Painter, 1982, New York, pp. 56 and 88 (illustrated) and p. 233.

The first of these sets was a brilliant series of twenty-six yachting prints published by Charles Scribner's & Sons., N.Y. entitled 'American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races.' They were published using a new color lithography technique 'chromolithography' which allowed all the colors to be printed rather than the earlier use of handcoloring. The series of twenty-six prints was accompanied by a seperate text written by Lieutenant James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, which describes in detail each scene represented.