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Approaching Safe Harbor: The American Frigate's Return, circa 1920
£1,015
$1,345 · €1,200
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1920
- Sheet size
- 18.5 × 23.2 in (47 × 59 cm)
- Condition
- Excellent. Excellent. No soiling or foxing or other damage. Study the images carefully.
- Collection
- Ships & sea battles
- Era
- 1850 and after, Steam and steel
- Stock no.
- f_38219682
A United States frigate under way toward her anchorage, a heliotype with hand coloring made around 1920 after the French maritime artist Jean-Jérôme Baugean. The caption printed in a brown band beneath the image reads "Frégate des États-Unis d'Amérique, courant au mouillage", meaning frigate of the United States of America running to her anchorage.
The ship is seen broadside to the left, sailing over a choppy blue-green sea under a pale, cloud-streaked sky. The stars and stripes flies from the stern, a long red pennant streams from the main masthead, and the sails are loosely furled in warm yellow tones. Rows of gunports run along the hull, and a rocky headland sits at the right horizon. The picture is set within a printed green border, with a second thin rule outside it.
Baugean worked in the early nineteenth century and was known for accurate portraits of ships of many navies, which makes this sheet a record of how an American warship of the period looked to French eyes.
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