Death of Black Beard – 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 Death of Black Beard, an antique engraving rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Death of Black Beard
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Shown here is the death of Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, who was killed in November 1718 in a fight with a Royal Navy force under Lieutenant Robert Maynard off the coast of North Carolina. The engraving appeared as an illustration in Charles Ellms' *The Pirates Own Book* of 1837, one of the popular American collections of pirate stories that circulated widely in the nineteenth century. Such books blended documented events with embellished legend, and the dramatic staging of the death reflects that appetite for violent, romanticized accounts of the sea.
| Created / published | 1837 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Charles Ellms, Pirates Own Book, 1837. Ref. copy may be in Biog. File - BLACKBEARD. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Death; Pirates. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,138 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158359 |
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