Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his flagship Hartford / Prangs chromo ; after Theodore Kaufman. – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his flagship Hartford / Prangs chromo ; after Theodore Kaufman., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his flagship Hartford / Prangs chromo ; after Theodore Kaufman.
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Farragut is shown lashed to the rigging of his flagship, USS *Hartford*, as the ship steams past the forts guarding Mobile Bay in August 1864. The Union admiral had himself tied high in the shrouds so he could see over the smoke and watch the fleet's progress, and the image turns that dangerous vantage into its central drama. The chromolithograph was issued by Louis Prang's Boston firm around 1870 or 1871, after a painting by Theodore Kaufman, and it belongs to Prang's series of American color prints. Its date places it shortly after Farragut's death in 1870, when he was remembered as the Union's most celebrated naval commander.
| Created / published | Boston : Chromo-lithographed and published by L. Prang, c1870, c1871. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870. |
| Notes | Prang's American Chromos."" |
| Subjects | Farragut, David Glasgow,--1801-1870--Military service. Ship equipment & rigging--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,464 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216031 |
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