| Administrative History | Note included with the photograph states that the painting's original inscription read: "Schooner "Alert" of Wick, 143 tons Regt. Passing Heliogoland from Huelva, bound to Hamburg Aug 14th 1867. Alexander Cormack, Master."
The note also says that the original is in Aberdeen, in the possession of James Cormack (great grandson of the vessel's Master and great-great-grandson of the owner, also named James Cormack). |