Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac--fought March 9th 1862 at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Va. – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac--fought March 9th 1862 at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Va.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac--fought March 9th 1862 at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Va.
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Hampton Roads, off Norfolk, Virginia, was the setting on March 9, 1862, when the Union ironclad Monitor met the Confederate Merrimac, the name this print uses for the ship the Confederates rebuilt as the ironclad Virginia. The day before, that ironclad had wrecked several wooden Union warships, and the Monitor arrived overnight to contest it. The two vessels fought to a standstill, the first battle between ironclad warships, and it reshaped naval design worldwide. This color lithograph was published by Kurz & Allison, a Chicago firm, in 1889, nearly three decades after the engagement.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Colors 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 26605U U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyrighted 1889 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. |
| Subjects | Monitor (Ironclad) Merrimack (Frigate) Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862. Naval warfare--Virginia--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,113 × 1,685 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215900 |
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