Sinking of the British battle ship Victoria off Tripoli, Syria, June 22, 1893 – Vintage 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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Sinking of the British battle ship Victoria off Tripoli, Syria, June 22, 1893 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sinking of the British battle ship Victoria off Tripoli, Syria, June 22, 1893
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The lithograph shows HMS *Victoria*, the flagship of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet, going down off Tripoli on the coast of the Ottoman province of Syria (today's northern Lebanon) on June 22, 1893. The ship was rammed by its fleet mate HMS *Camperdown* during a squadron maneuver, and the sinking claimed more than 350 lives, including that of Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon. New York publisher Currier & Ives issued the hand-colored print that same year, bringing a distant naval disaster to American viewers as a dramatic, widely circulated news image.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5923 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,238 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175102 |
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