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[U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail] – Historic Reproduction

[U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail] — historic print
[U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail]. Historic print from the Boston National Historic Park 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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This rare historic print captures [U.S.S. Constitution - artists' conceptions: starboard, full sail] 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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Rather than a photograph of the ship, this gravure is an artist's conception of USS Constitution seen from her starboard side under full sail. Launched in 1797 in Boston, the frigate earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" in the War of 1812, when her hull shrugged off British cannon fire during her victory over HMS Guerriere. By the early 1930s, when this print appeared, the ship had become a national symbol, and the restoration work of that period helped keep her afloat as a museum ship. The print shows how the public imagined her in her fighting days.

Medium1 photomechanical print : gravure.
Notesc1933.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,919 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123576

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