Hand-colored lithograph after a sketch by J.C. King showing the British and North American (Cunard Line) steamship Britannia leaving East Boston, Massachusetts, on February 3, 1844, on a voyage to Liverpool. A group of Boston merchants paid for a channel 7 miles long and 100 ft wide to be cut through the ice after the ship had become icebound in Boston harbor. Image size 15 1/8 x 24 3/4 inches. Printed by Bouve & Sharp, Boston (1844). Framed at Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., 18 Beacon St., Boston, on June 9, 1959.