The James Watt Steam Ship

A simple starboard-broadside view of the passenger paddle steamer 'James Watt', with its auxiliary sails fully rigged. Its name is inscribed on a triangular pennant flying at the mainmast head. Summary outlines denote smoke coming out of the funnel. ‘J.M. Huggins’ is inscribed in the bottom-left corner in a banner. The print bears the number '33' under the title, suggesting it is one of a series followed on the lnext line with 'by W.J. Huggins, Marine Painter to His Majesty, 105 Leadenhall Street'. This is the publication imprint, the signature implying the image is in this case by his elder son James Miller Huggins (1807-70) who would therefore have been about 17 when he drew it. [PvdM 10/19]

Object Details

ID: PAD6654
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Huggins, William John; Huggins, James Miller
Vessels: James Watt (1821)
Date made: 1 Jan 1824
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Mount: 250 mm x 300 mm