Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 A commemorative lithograph issued the

A commemorative lithograph issued the year her copper skin arrived in New York harbor in 214 crates

New Mexico Santa Fe arrives in the soft ochres and adobe shadows of the high desert capital — lithographed views of the Palace of the Governors

by the end

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

the great house of the Potomac standing in for the quieter chapter of a man whose name had already calcified into legend

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 A commemorative lithograph issued theDestruction 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