694-695;William Allingham,"Figure-heads," NauticalMagazine 68(August 1899): 522; and David A.Wasson,"The Silent Pilots," The Outlook 109(January 27,1915):208-209.The most complete accounts appear in Brewington,pp. 129-136, and Pinckney, pp. 103-114. 5 Morrison, pp. 153-154. 6 Octavius T.Howe and Frederick C. Matthews,American Clipper Ships,1833-1858, vol. 1(Salem,Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1926), pp. 124-125; Ralph Whitney,"Davy Crockett, ahoy!," Ships and the Sea (spring 1956): 11; and Brewing-ton, p. 66. 7 See,for example,"Madame Anna Thillon," Gleason's Pictorial2 (February 28,1852): 1.The unpublished research was conducted by Carol Olsen for the Mariners'Museum in Newport News,Virginia, which owns the figurehead. 8 Mabel M.Swan,"Ship Carvers of Newburyport,"Antiques 48 (August 1945): 81.[Duncan McLean],"The New Clipper Ship Morning Light, ofBoston," Boston Daily Atlas, September 2,1853. The Mason drawings are in the collection ofthe Peabody Essex Museum. See also Jane L.Port,"Boston's Nineteenth-Century Ship Carvers,"Antiques 158(November 2000): 757-758. 9 Richard C. McKay,Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder, Donald McKay(New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons,1928), p. 231; Georgia W.Hamilton, Silent Pilots:Figureheads in Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic,Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum,1984), pp. 35-36. 10 [Duncan McLean],"The New Clipper Ship Shooting Star, of Boston," Boston Daily Atlas, March 6,1851. 11 Brewington,p. 67; Boston Daily Transcript, December 31,1886, quoted in Port, p. 759. 12 Brewington says that Herbert was the son ofSamuel W.Gleason,but this is not certain; see p. 78. See also Pinckney, p. 136. 13 Much has been written about the ship and her builder. See especially McKay,op. cit.; Michael Jay Mjelde, Glory ofthe Seas (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1970); and A Descriptive Catalogue ofthe Marine Collection to be Found atIndia House(New York India House, 1935), pp. 51-52. 14 The Hastings sketches are in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum.See Pinckney, plate IV,for some examples.The Cushing journals are in the collection ofthe Waltham Historical Society An engraving ofthe weathervane appears in Illustrated Catalogue ofCopper Weather Vanes(Waltham,Mass.: L.W.Cushing & Sons,1883), p. 17. See also Myrna Kaye,"Cushing and White's Copper Weather Vanes,"Antiques 109(June 1976): 1225. 15 Brewington,p. 42,136; and Port, p. 756. 16 Thayer Tones,ed.,American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum ofArt,vol.1,A Catalogue ofWorks by Artists Born Before 1865(New York: Metropolitan Museum ofArt, 1999), pp. 172-174;Pinckney, pp. 137-138; Georgia Brady Bumgardner, "Political Portraiture:Two Prints ofAndrew Jackson,"American ArtJournal 18, no.4(1986): 84-95; David Tatum,John Henry Bufford:American Lithographer(Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1976); Alvin Page Johnson,"Introduction," in Alvin R.Page, Under SailandIn Port in the Glorious '50s(Salem, Mass.: Peabody Museum,1950), pp. xxix-xpoc.
This essay has been adapted from Ralph Sessions, The Shipcarvers'Art:Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press,2005).The book,in hardcover with 90 color plates and 32 halftones,is available at the American Folk Art Museum Book and Gift Shop for $75. Museum members receive a 10 percent discount on all shop items.
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