File:Lai Fong of Calcutta (attrib.) - The four-masted ship „County of Linlithgow“ (1897).jpg

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Lai Fong: The four-masted iron ship „County of Linlithgow“   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Lai Fong  (fl. circa / circa –)  wikidata:Q83495066
 
Alternative names
Lai Fong of Calcutta
Description Chinese painter
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artist QS:P170,Q83495066
Title
The four-masted iron ship „County of Linlithgow“
label QS:Len,"The four-masted iron ship „County of Linlithgow“"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1897
date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on linen
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q1426327,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 63.6 cm (25 in); width: 95.3 cm (37.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,63.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,95.3U174728
Place of creation Kolkata
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Lai Fong/Calcutta/1897
Notes The four-masted iron ship County of Linlithgow was built on the Clyde by Barclay, Curle & Co. for R. & J. Graig of Glasgow and launched in 1887. Ordered for the Indian jute trade, she was registered at 2,207 tons gross and measured 286¾ feet in length with a 43 foot beam. After numerous changes of ownership, she was bombed and sunk in Piraeus harbour during the Second World War (1941), whilst under the ownership of S/A Hellenique Maritime 'Transpetrol', Piraeus.[1]
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5688789 (sale 8918, lot 110, London, 12 June 2013)

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