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U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns – Historic Reproduction

U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. — antique lithograph
U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Pennsylvania was one of the largest sailing warships the United States ever planned, a three-decker designed to carry 140 guns as a flagship of the line. Her name and rated armament set her apart from the smaller frigates and sloops that filled Nathaniel Currier's catalog of ship prints. Published around 1846, the hand-colored lithograph reflects the nation's appetite in those years for images of its navy, when wooden warships still represented the peak of naval power. Currier's prints of this kind were popular with sailors' families and with shipping men, who valued the detailed rigging and the sense of a vessel shown at full sail.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1846.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6850
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175214

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