Provenance:The Collection of Robert K. and Joy Lewis, Sag Harbor, New York.Note:The Sag Harbor whaling firm of Nathan P. & Gilbert Howell owned and managed the whaler Fanny. While no ship log appears to have survived, details of the commercial success and life aboard the whaler in the 1830s and 1840s are known through newspaper accounts, commercial shipping publications and at least one journal. Newspapers printed the death Charles Watson Payne, Master of the Fanny who died at sea at the age of 30 in 1838. His death is memorialized on the Broken Mast Monument, Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor. Isaac Sidney Gould recorded his three years, 1843-1846, aboard ship in "A Journal Kept on Board Ship Fanny of Sag Harbor," now in the collection of Stoneybrook University. The Ship's Log of the Barque Oscar, records that Fanny had arrived in the Sandwich Islands in 1848 and was being repainted.