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U.S. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns – Vintage Print

U.S. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1845. — antique lithograph
U.S. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1845.. 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. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Vincennes, a 20-gun sloop of war, is named for the town of Vincennes in Indiana, and this hand-colored lithograph shows the ship as a naval vessel of the early 1840s. Nathaniel Currier issued this print from New York around 1845, when his shop was turning out a steady stream of ship portraits for a public eager to follow the navy's voyages. Sloops of war like Vincennes carried the country's flag on long cruises, so prints like this one doubled as both records of a warship's appearance and popular souvenirs of American seafaring.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1845.
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. 6855
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,011 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111000

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