The [U.S.S.] ESSEX [commanded by David Porter] capturing the British ship ALERT – Historic Reproduction
![The [U.S.S.] ESSEX [commanded by David Porter] capturing the British ship ALERT, 1875 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/45/45144c0ca863-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic print captures The [U.S.S.] ESSEX [commanded by David Porter] capturing the British ship ALERT in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The [U.S.S.] ESSEX [commanded by David Porter] capturing the British ship ALERT
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Few prints of the War of 1812 at sea show a single capture this specifically: the frigate Essex, under Commodore David Porter, taking the British sloop Alert. Porter took the Essex into the Pacific during the war to raid British whaling ships, and the Alert was one of the few Royal Navy vessels she met there. This picture is a reproduction of a drawing by an artist named Hart, published as an illustration in an 1875 memoir of Porter, so it shows a later artist's view of an event from more than sixty years earlier.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | Repro. of drawing by Hart. Illus. in: Memoir of ... David Porter, 1875, opp. p. 94. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index; War of 1812---; Ships, US Govt.--ESSEX; Ships--ALERT; U.S. Hist--War of 1812; Navy, U.S.; Shelf. Porter 1780-1842. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 909 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142233 |
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