This early painting of an historic liner by Joseph William Carey comes up as lot 54 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online sale of Irish art which runs until February 7. The watercolour on paper of the RMS Baltic is estimated at €400-600. Until May 1906 this White Star Liner, built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, was the world’s largest ship and served the Liverpool-New York route. In 1909 she came to the rescue of the Republic and the Florida when they collided. All passengers were saved. In April 1912 she picked up distress signals from Titanic, but was too far away to intervene. She carried troops between 1915 and 1918 and brought the first American soldiers to Europe with General John Pershing on board. She continued commercial service in the 1920’s and was finally replaced in 1932 and scrapped in Osaka the following year.
UPDATE: Illustrations by Jack B Yeats for The Turf Cutter’s Donkey by Patricia Lynch sold particularly well at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale this week. The Turf Cutter’s Donkey made €27,000 at hammer, Look at the showdown by the red rock made €24,000 and How did you get here made €9,000. Two Pears by William Scott made €60,000 at hammer.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for January 30, January 21 and January 12, 2023)
