The Mayflower at Sea – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The Mayflower at Sea. 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 Mayflower at Sea
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This engraving shows the Mayflower under sail, published as the frontispiece of the first volume of *Pioneers in the Settlements of America*. The ship carried the Pilgrims from England in 1620, and the voyage ended with the landing at Plymouth later that year. No contemporary drawing of the Mayflower is known to survive, so images like this one reflect the illustrator's imagination as much as the ship itself. Its popularity in books of the 19th century helped shape the Pilgrim story that Americans later linked to the Thanksgiving holiday.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Illus. in: Pioneers in the Settlements of America, v. 1, frontis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist.; Ships--MAYFLOWER; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129687 |
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