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The North River or Cleremont Robt Fulton 1807
Hand-coloured lithograph depicting the Clermont. After the efficiency and speed of the Clermont in 1808 on the run between New York and Albany on a route whic passed Clermont (the country seat of Robert Livingstone, Robert Fulton's promoter and partner), the State of the New York Legislature passed a bill giving Fulton and Livingstone the monopoly of running steamers on the waters of the State of New York.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD6632 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bourne, J C; Cheffins, C F |
| Vessels: | Clermont (1807) |
| Date made: | 1 Jul 1848 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 160 mm x 229 mm |