The Battle of Lake Erie – 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.)
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A window into the past: The Battle of Lake Erie, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Battle of Lake Erie
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Oliver Hazard Perry's American squadron defeated a British fleet under Robert Barclay on September 10, 1813, and this halftone reproduction, made around 1916, shows that naval engagement from the painting by W.H. Powell. Powell's scene places the viewer among the ships in the thick of the fighting, a dramatic choice typical of nineteenth-century paintings that celebrated national victories. Perry's dispatch after the battle, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," became one of the most quoted lines of the War of 1812. Halftone printing, which let books and periodicals reproduce paintings with tonal detail, helped carry images like this to a wide audience.
| Created / published | c1916. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of painting by W.H. Powell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist.--1813; Geogr.; B.I.; Navy, U.S.; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145599 |
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