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Plate 2-Chesapeake and Shannon by Schetky

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Date:

ca 1830

Reference:

R9266

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3028352

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Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana at the National Archives of Canada

Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, 2002 Acquisition

Plate 2-Chesapeake and Shannon by Schetky
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Date(s):

ca 1830

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : lithograph on wove paper
Support 48.000 x 63.500 cm

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Plate 2 depicts the two frigates engaging in battle just after its commencement.The Chesapeake has been crippled as large clouds of smoke rise in between the two ships.

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Artist: Schetky, J.C. after

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Sotheby's inventory no. P3855

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in the stone:l.l.:Painted by J.C. Schetky Esqre.& on Stone by Haghe.; l.r.: Designed by Captn. R.H.King R.N.; l.c.: To Captain Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke Bart. and K.C.B./This representation of the AMERICAN FRIGATE CHESAPEAKE.Crippled and thrown into utter disorder by the two first broadsides fired from H.M.S. SHANNON./is Dedicated by his obliged and most grateful Servant R.H. King./London Pubd. By Smith and Elder &Co.65 Cornhill.Printed by W.Day.17 Gate St.; u.c.:No.2
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Private

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03219
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R9266] 3219

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-3219
Copyright: expired/perimé

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