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Anne Bonny – Antique Wall Art

Anne Bonny, 1962 — historic print
Anne Bonny, 1962. Historic print 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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Anne Bonny

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Anne Bonny, the Irish-born pirate shown here, sailed with Calico Jack Rackham in the Caribbean around 1720, and she and fellow crewmember Mary Read were among the few women of the era known to have taken part in piracy. This print is an illustration from a 1962 Folio Society edition of Captain Charles Johnson's pirate biographies, first published in 1724, which remains a major source for what is known about figures like Bonny. Johnson's accounts mix documented court records with dramatic embellishment, so the image reflects how readers of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries imagined a woman outlaw at sea.

Created / published1962
Medium1 print.
NotesIllus. in: Lives of the most notorious pirates, by Captain Charles Johnson. London, Folio Society, 1962. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,000 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140883

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