Combat naval entre le Kearsarge et l'Alabama (Naval Engagement between the Kearsarge and the Alabama)

Louis Le Breton, French, 1818 - 1866

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1864

Hand colored lithograph on wove paper

Sheet: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund

PR.965.66.3

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on stone, lower right: LEBRETON; printed, lower left: "ALABAMA" Capt.n Semmes; center: Lebreton Dessinateur aux Cartes et Plans de la Marine; right: "KEARSARGE" Capt.n Winslow.; center: COMBAT NAVAL ENTRE LE KEARSARGE & L'ALABAMA/Livre le 19 Juin 1864 en vue de Cherbourg.

Provenance

Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1965.

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