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James Bard (American, 1815-1897) HUDSON RIVER TOWBOAT OSWEGO, circa 1848 Signed and distinctly lower "Picture Drawn & Painted by James Bard 162 Perry St, NY." Oil on canvas 30 1/8 x 52 in. Literature: Peluso, A. J., Jr. J. and J. Bard Picture Painters (1877), p. 120; Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels (1895), pp. 96-97, illus.; Murray, Stuart, Thomas Cornell and the Cornell Steamboat Company(2001), pp. 47, 51, 55, 68, 74, 88, 91, 110, 123-124, 127-128, 199 (for vessel biography) Other Notes: Oswego, Bard's first commission from Alfred Van Santvoord, was built in 1848. She was the first of 7 large steam boats (Cayuga 1849, America 1852, Austin 1853, Anna 1854, Syracuse 1857, George A. Hoy 1858) built exclusively for towing canal boats on the Hudson River. Previous to 1848 all large side-wheel, in addition to towing barges, etc., alongside, carried passengers. Oswego was built in 1848 in Brooklyn, N.Y. by Capes & Burtis. Her well was of wood, and she measured length 212 feet, breath of beam 28 feet, depth of hold 8 feet, tonnage 329.19 gross, 211.42 net. Oswego was powered by a vertical beam engine with a diameter of cylinder 52 inches, and stroke of 11 feet constructed by Henry R. Dunham & Co. (Archimedes Works), New York. Her new boiler, installed 1879, with a diameter of 12 feet and a length 24 feet, was fabricated by the Quintard Iron Works, New York. Oswego changed hands a number of times, but was always employed as a towboat on the Hudson. She was acquired by the Cornell Towing Line in 1869, where she labored until she was retired in September 1918 - the last of the towboats in use.