Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 walking-beam rocking above the hurricane

walking-beam rocking above the hurricane deck like the pulse of the river itself

hand-tinted in the cool palette of the rail-touring era

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Admiral George Dewey USN 1899

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 walking-beam rocking above the hurricaneDestruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendering the Mississippi's most stubborn ironclad in her final, fiery moments off Baton Rouge in August 1862. The Essex stands close enough to feel the heat, her guns answering as the Arkansas blooms into smoke and ruin along the river's brown current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century